People from abroad in Belgium, and Belgium's people abroad

Where they come from

Industries

Where the names come from (estimate)

Where the names in Belgium's company register come from, estimated by a name-origin model and adjusted to Belgium's own mix. These are expected counts, not people with a documented move, and no individual is labelled by them.

Based on 307,395 names whose origin the model can place; 1,016,935 names common to many countries are counted but not assigned.

Belgium's people abroad

Abroad, 415,913 people from Belgium are documented in 222 other countries.

Belgium's company register lists 2,006,848 officer rows, 24,734 with a stated nationality (self-stamp rate 0.40; above 0.98 the field is ignored as it only repeats the register's own country).

Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".

Aggregate statistics from official company registers, ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata, compiled by compatriots.net · data build v3_20261030. No individual is named on this page. See methodology & privacy.