Belgium's life expectancy rose from 76.8 yrs in 1995 to 82.3 yrs in 2024.
Belgium · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Belgium's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 67.2 yrs in 2000 to 69.8 yrs in 2021.
Belgium's infant mortality fell from 6.4 ‰ in 1995 to 3.1 ‰ in 2024.
Belgium's under-5 mortality rate fell from 7.6 ‰ in 1995 to 3.7 ‰ in 2024.
Belgium's maternal mortality ratio fell from 9.0 /100k in 1994 to 4.0 /100k in 2023.
Belgium's ncd mortality fell from 15.4 % in 2000 to 9.2 % in 2021.
Belgium's suicide mortality rate fell from 22.1 /100k in 2000 to 18.4 /100k in 2021.
Belgium's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 16.7 /100k in 2000 to 5.8 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.1 pts19th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +8.1 %16th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.1 pts71st of 192
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- Physiciansup +1.0 %35th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesup +0.5 %9th of 120*
- Hospital bedsdown −0.7 %11th of 75
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts46th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts29th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts43rd of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisup +8.0 %16th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterdown −0.0 pts25th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.0 pts25th of 141