Tom Van Grieken, President of the far right Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang leaves after a meeting with Belgium s King Philippe at the Royal Palace in Brussels, Belgium May 29, 2019 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]
This January, Belgium’s statistical agency, Statbel, released the first official study on the diversity of the Belgian population. The picture that emerged is one of an increasingly diverse and heterogeneous society.
The study revealed that while Belgian citizens of Belgian ancestry make up just more than two-thirds of the country’s population (67.9 percent), the rest is comprised of Belgian citizens of foreign ancestry (19.7 percent) and foreign nationals (12.4 percent).
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