Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Netherlands instead of Belgium, you would:
Economy
make 12.4% more money
Belgium has a GDP per capita of $48,200 as of 2020, while in Netherlands, the GDP per capita is $54,200 as of 2020.
be 36.4% less likely to be unemployed
In Belgium, 5.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Netherlands, that number is 3.4% as of 2019.
Expenditures
spend 15.6% less on education
Belgium spends 6.4% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Netherlands spends 5.4% of total GDP on education as of 2018.
Geography
see 6.8 times more coastline
Belgium has a total of 66 km of coastline. In Netherlands, that number is 451 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Netherlands: At a glance
How big is Netherlands compared to Belgium? See an in-depth size comparison.