Belgium

ISO code: BE
Currency: EUR
Monetary authority: European Central Bank — sets the rate
National Bank of Belgium — implements it, as a member of the Eurosystem
Policy regime: Euro-area member: the rate is set in Frankfurt by the ECB Governing Council, on which the National Bank of Belgium governor sits; the national bank implements rather than decides
GDP: $0.73tn (2025, World Bank)
Real GDP growth: 1% (2025, World Bank)
Inflation (CPI): 2.5% (2025, World Bank)
Population: 11.9m (2025, World Bank)
Credit to private sector: 68% of GDP (2024, World Bank)

Annual indicators from World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), each shown with its observation year — refreshed daily, but the underlying series are annual and only move when the World Bank publishes.

Markets

Euronext Brussels

Banks

None in covered set

Funds domiciled

None in covered set

Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.

# this page as data GET https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/belgium

JSON CSV No key, CORS enabled — paste any of these straight into a notebook.

Code to fetch it

curl

curl -s https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/belgium

Python

import requests r = requests.get("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/belgium", timeout=30) r.raise_for_status() data = r.json()

JavaScript

const r = await fetch("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/belgium"); if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.status); const data = await r.json();

pandas

import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/belgium.csv")