Country comparison: Belgium / India

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Belgium and India. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Belgium	India
Region:	Western Europe	South Asia
Area:	30,530 km²	3,287,259 km²
National language:	Dutch	Hindi
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1830 AD	1947 AD
Capital:	Brussels	New Delhi

Population

Details for Belgium and India

	Belgium	India
Population:	11,593,000	1,407,564,000
Inhabitants/km²:	379.7	428.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 72 years
Average age:	Ø 41.6 years	Ø 28.7 years
Birth rate:	9.90 ‰	16.57 ‰
Death rate:	11.00 ‰	7.35 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.38 ‰	0.16 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Belgium	India
Political stability:	76	53
Civil rights:	88	46
Health:	89	36
Climate:	20	62
Cost of Living:	32	45
Popularity:	40	49

Economy

Details for Belgium and India

	Belgium	India
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Indian rupee (1 INR =100 Paise)
Unemployment rate:	6.4 %	6.0 %
Inflation rate:	2.44 %	5.13 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.97 %	28.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	49.70 %
Average income:	50,490 US$	2,150 US$
Corruption index:	27 (good)	60 (bad)

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	594,104 M US$	51.25 M US$	3,176,295 M US$	2.26 M US$
Gross national product:	585,375 M US$	50.49 M US$	3,023,424 M US$	2.15 M US$
Exported goods:	515,625 M US$	44.48 M US$	643,080 M US$	0.46 M US$
Imported goods:	509,018 M US$	43.91 M US$	717,119 M US$	0.51 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Belgium and India

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	118,414 km	10.21 km	6,371,847 km	4.53 km
Railways:	3,592 km	0.31 km	68,155 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	2,043 km	0.18 km	14,500 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	201	0.0173	1,801	0.0013
Passenger airports:	5	0.0004	82	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Belgium and India

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	82.16 bn kWh	7.09 m kWh	1.137 tn kWh	807,778.64 kWh
Energy production:	79.83 bn kWh	6.89 m kWh	1.386 tn kWh	984,680.03 kWh
Energy export:	8.47 bn kWh	730,185.03 kWh	5.15 bn kWh	3,658.80 kWh
Energy imports:	14.65 bn kWh	1.26 m kWh	5.62 bn kWh	3,990.58 kWh
CO2 emissions:	93.01 m t	8,022.98 t	2.46 bn t	1,745.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for Belgium and India

	Belgium	India
International dialing:	+32	+91
Internet domain:	.be	.in

	BEL total	BEL per 1000 inh.	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,293,420	284	23,773,751	17
Mobile cellulars:	11,740,118	1013	1,154,046,584	820
Internet server:	5,192,000	448	6,746,000	5
Internet users:	10,756,947	928	605,252,452	430
Broadband Internet:	4,920,679	424	27,560,000	20

Healthcare system

Details for Belgium and India

	Belgium	India
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.58	0.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.32	0.78
Diabetes:	4.6 %	10.4 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	2.10 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	23.4 %	27.2 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Belgium and India

	Belgium	India
Daytime temperatures:	14.9 °C	31.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.3 °C	21.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	66 %
Rain days:	10.6	7.9
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	6.2

Native languages

	Belgium	India
Dutch:	54.2 %	n/a
French:	41.1 %	n/a
Hindi:	n/a	41.0 %
Bengali:	n/a	8.1 %
Telugu:	n/a	7.2 %
Marathi:	n/a	7.0 %
Tamil:	n/a	5.9 %
Urdu:	n/a	5.0 %
Gujarati:	n/a	4.5 %
Kannada:	n/a	3.7 %
Malayalam:	n/a	3.2 %
Oriya:	n/a	3.2 %
Punjabi:	n/a	2.8 %
Italian:	2.1 %	n/a
Assamese:	n/a	1.3 %
Maithili:	n/a	1.2 %
German:	0.7 %	n/a
other:	1.9 %	5.9 %

Religions

	Belgium	India
Hinduism:	n/a	79.8 %
Christianity:	75.0 %	2.3 %
Islam:	n/a	13.0 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.7 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
Jainism:	n/a	0.4 %
Jewry:	0.3 %	n/a
Bahaism:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	24.7 %	1.9 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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