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Public opinion and socioeconomic subgroup evidence from approved external survey sources. Exact source framing and methodological caveats remain visible.

Belgium · Financial resilience

79.5% say their household could cover basic needs for at least a month

Nearly four in five respondents in Belgium said their household could cover basic needs for a month or more if income were lost.

Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll · Fieldwork 2025

People · Generations · Financial milestones

The “maybe later” economy.

Housing, education, work and family choices increasingly collide with financial pressure. PolisMetric keeps the U.S. Pew benchmark separate from Deloitte’s same-wave Gen Z and millennial country evidence so unlike questions are never forced into one ranking.

Financial milestones: country evidence not yet available

Evidence gap

No source-verified 2026 country topline is published here yet for Belgium.

No country-specific 2026 financial-milestones topline has been source-verified for publication in the current governed pass. Missing is not estimated.

Missing is kept missing — never estimated, copied from a regional average or treated as zero.

Same-question international comparison

Financial pressure is delaying major life decisions.

These 15 country results come from the same Deloitte 2026 survey wave and the same question. Paired dots show published percentages for Gen Z and millennials; the connector shows the gap. This is not a quality ranking. Countries without a verified national value remain outside the ranking.

Thailand65%57%

Philippines64%64%

Argentina59%67%

Mexico57%52%

Italy56%51%

Australia55%45%

India54%44%

Sweden52%49%

Singapore51%50%

Netherlands51%45%

Switzerland46%60%

United Kingdom46%46%

China46%35%

Germany45%39%

Brazil45%36%

Deloitte Global 2026 Gen Z and Millennial Survey · fielded Nov. 24, 2025–Jan. 15, 2026 · online self-complete survey. The global study includes 22,595 respondents in 44 countries; this chart contains only source-verified country cuts in the current PolisMetric evidence pass.

Research status

Country-specific research remains open. The international chart above is evidence from other countries and is not presented as a value for Belgium.

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People Intelligence · Belgium · Young women

Political divides and mental health — measured as separate evidence streams.

PolisMetric does not assume that the U.S. pattern applies everywhere. For Belgium, political or gender-attitude evidence is shown only when a governed source supports it, and mental-health evidence is kept methodologically separate. An association is never inferred merely because both measures appear on the same page.

CoveragePolitics evidence · Mental-health evidenceNo synthetic national values

Political / values evidence

Young-adult left–right gender gap

Ages 20–29 · 1990–2023

Current classificationStable modern gender gapSmall gap

Young women are more left-leaning than young men; the modern gap has remained mostly stable since the 1990s.

European Sociological Review analysis of 466,089 people ages 20–29 across 32 European countries. The measure is left–right self-placement, not party vote.

Secondary gender-attitude context · Ipsos 2026

Adults who say “I define myself as a feminist”POLISMETRIC · DATA

Women44%

Men31%

Country-specific all-adult context only; it does not replace the youth ideology measure above.

Mental-health evidence

Young-adult mind-health position

Ages 18–34 · 2024–2025

18–34 MHQ rank#52of 84 reported countries

Higher-rankedLower-ranked

Sapien Labs' Global Mind Project ranks Belgium's internet-enabled 18–34 population at #52 of 84. This is a young-adult country context, not a women-only result and not a depression prevalence estimate.

Global young-adult referenceMHQ 36 · 41% distressed/strugglingGlobal 18–34 reference from the same report; not a national value for Belgium.

Interpretation ruleDo not turn two separate datasets into a causal story.

Political ideology, party affiliation, feminist self-identification, psychological distress and MHQ are different constructs. Cross-country cultural and sampling differences also matter. PolisMetric keeps the measures separate unless a single defensible study directly estimates their relationship in the same population.

POLISMETRICEvidence before narrative

Trusted sources · Health & wellness · 2018 baseline

Belgium: who people trusted for health advice.

A directly comparable baseline from the Wellcome Global Monitor. “Most trusted source,” trust in government advice, and trust in medical workers are kept as separate measures. The survey was fielded in 2018; newer country-specific evidence is shown separately when a governed source is available.

Most trusted source90.2%

named doctors or nurses as the person they trusted most for medical or health advice.

2018 national sample n=1,004 · prevalence rank #7 of 35 current PolisMetric countries

Most trusted source · Q20

One question, six answer groups.

Bars use the full weighted country sample denominator, matching Wellcome’s published convention. “Don’t know” and refusals remain in the denominator and are preserved as missing-response metadata.

Doctors & nurses90.2%

Family & friends4.1%

Traditional healers2.8%

None / someone else1.4%

Religious leaders0.5%

Famous people0.4%

Don’t know / refused: 0.6% of the weighted sample.

Source trust · Q2174.6%

Government medical & health advice

Share answering that they trust government medical and health advice a lot or some.

Source trust · Q2296.7%

Medical workers’ advice

Share saying they trust advice from medical workers such as doctors and nurses a lot or some.

35-country comparison

Compare the same question across PolisMetric countries.

Switch measures to inspect directly comparable 2018 values. Bars show response prevalence, not a quality score or PolisMetric ranking.

Doctors or nurses named as the single most trusted sourceQ20: share of the weighted country sample naming a doctor or nurse as the person trusted most for medical or health advice.

Belgium 90.2%Median 79.7%Available 35/35

1Singapore93.5%

2Norway93.2%

3Canada91.1%

4Italy90.7%

5Malaysia90.7%

6United Kingdom90.3%

7Belgium90.2%

8Sweden89.5%

9Australia89.4%

10France88.7%

11Thailand88.7%

12Spain88.1%

13United States88.1%

14Ireland85.2%

15Netherlands84%

16Taiwan83.3%

17Mexico81.4%

18Switzerland79.7%

19Argentina79.1%

20Vietnam78.7%

21India76.8%

22Indonesia76.1%

23Türkiye75.9%

24South Africa74.3%

25Poland71.9%

26Saudi Arabia71.2%

27South Korea71.2%

28Russia69.8%

29Philippines69.6%

30Japan69%

31Brazil65.1%

32Germany63.3%

33Israel63.1%

34China62.4%

35Austria58.7%

Dashed marker = median among countries with a published value for this exact measure. Hover, tap or use Tab to inspect rows.

Source & reuse

Gallup (2019), Wellcome Global Monitor – First Wave Findings. PolisMetric visualization and weighted aggregation from published survey fields. The Wellcome report states that its data and text are distributed under CC BY with attribution; report images are excluded. PolisMetric uses original charts and does not reproduce Wellcome’s graphic design.

Report ↗Country data ↗Questionnaire ↗

Country percentages use the public within-country survey weight (wgt) and the full weighted country sample denominator, matching Wellcome's published country convention. Q21/Q22 combine 'A lot' + 'Some'. Don't know/refused responses remain in the denominator and are preserved as missing-response metadata; unavailable questions remain null and are never converted to zero. Fieldwork: April–December 2018. This supplemental module does not count as five independent People sources.

AI & society · Pew Research Center · 2026

Pew's 2026 AI study did not survey Belgium.

PolisMetric does not estimate, model or backfill a Pew value when the country was not included in this release. Other People evidence remains separate.

No directly comparable Pew 2026 observation.

Not surveyed in Pew Research Center's 2026 global AI attitudes release.

Missing is kept missing. It is not treated as zero and does not receive a comparative rank.

Source

Pew Research Center, Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth, published Sept. 17, 2026.

Report ↗Topline ↗Methodology ↗

Pew surveyed 37 places overall. This PolisMetric comparison is restricted to the 25 countries that overlap the canonical 35-country universe. Source results are reproduced as attributed public toplines; PolisMetric does not reinterpret them as an original poll.

Belgium · People Intelligence

Five sources. Five different stories.

Each finding comes from a different approved source and covers a different part of public life. Open the data view to inspect the measure, sample, evidence note and original source.

Financial resilience2025

Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll01 / 05

79.5% say their household could cover basic needs for at least a month

Five People signals from the 2025 World Risk PollPOLISMETRIC · DATA

01Married / partner47.8%

02Neighbors care74.8%

031+ month buffer79.5%

04Mental-health harm worry54.6%

05Violent-crime harm worry72.2%

Five separately measured 2025 World Risk Poll items shown for context; the story headline highlights one verified item. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingNearly four in five respondents in Belgium said their household could cover basic needs for a month or more if income were lost.

Independent source970 respondents on highlighted item

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Financial resilience

79.5% say their household could cover basic needs for at least a month

2025

Five People signals from the 2025 World Risk PollPOLISMETRIC · DATA

01Married / partner47.8%

02Neighbors care74.8%

031+ month buffer79.5%

04Mental-health harm worry54.6%

05Violent-crime harm worry72.2%

Five separately measured 2025 World Risk Poll items shown for context; the story headline highlights one verified item. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · 2025
Measure / group	Published value
Married / partner	47.8%
Neighbors care	74.8%
1+ month buffer	79.5%
Mental-health harm worry	54.6%
Violent-crime harm worry	72.2%

Question / measure

How Long Household Could Cover Basic Needs If Income Was Lost: A month or more

Sample

970 respondents on highlighted item

Evidence

canonical observation

Use class

OPEN ATTRIBUTION

Finding

Nearly four in five respondents in Belgium said their household could cover basic needs for a month or more if income were lost.

Evidence note

Canonical World Risk Poll 2025 observation lrf-wrp-2025-bel-household_buffer_month_plus. Weighted national estimate; item base differs from the full survey sample.

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Life evaluation2023–2025

World Happiness Report / Gallup World Poll02 / 05

Average life evaluation is 6.926 out of 10

Average life evaluation in BelgiumPOLISMETRIC · DATA

6.93 / 10

010 / 10

2023–2025 average

World Happiness Report 2026 Figure 2.1; Gallup World Poll three-year average on the 0–10 Cantril Ladder. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingWorld Happiness Report 2026 reports a three-year average life evaluation of 6.926 for Belgium.

Independent sourceGallup World Poll national samples; typically about 1,000 respondents per country per year

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Life evaluation

Average life evaluation is 6.926 out of 10

2023–2025

Average life evaluation in BelgiumPOLISMETRIC · DATA

6.93 / 10

010 / 10

2023–2025 average

World Happiness Report 2026 Figure 2.1; Gallup World Poll three-year average on the 0–10 Cantril Ladder. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · 2023–2025
Measure / group	Published value
2023–2025 average	6.926 / 10

Question / measure

Cantril Ladder life evaluation, 0 worst possible life to 10 best possible life

Sample

Gallup World Poll national samples; typically about 1,000 respondents per country per year

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

World Happiness Report 2026 reports a three-year average life evaluation of 6.926 for Belgium.

Evidence note

Publisher-released World Happiness Report 2026 Figure 2.1 national aggregate. Three-year average; underlying Gallup respondent microdata are proprietary and are not republished.

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Public moodOct.–Nov. 2025

European Commission — Standard Eurobarometer03 / 05

87% say they are satisfied with the life they lead

Selected Eurobarometer country indicatorsPOLISMETRIC · DATA

01Life satisfaction87%

02Democracy satisfaction55%

03Trust in EU43%

Standard Eurobarometer 104, Autumn 2025. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingStandard Eurobarometer 104 reports that 87% of respondents in Belgium were satisfied with the life they lead.

Independent sourceBelgium country sample; see official factsheet/report

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Public mood

87% say they are satisfied with the life they lead

Oct.–Nov. 2025

Selected Eurobarometer country indicatorsPOLISMETRIC · DATA

01Life satisfaction87%

02Democracy satisfaction55%

03Trust in EU43%

Standard Eurobarometer 104, Autumn 2025. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · Oct.–Nov. 2025
Measure / group	Published value
Life satisfaction	87%
Democracy satisfaction	55%
Trust in EU	43%

Question / measure

Satisfied with the life they lead

Sample

Belgium country sample; see official factsheet/report

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

Standard Eurobarometer 104 reports that 87% of respondents in Belgium were satisfied with the life they lead.

Evidence note

European Commission Standard Eurobarometer 104 public Belgium country result. Face-to-face Eurobarometer country sample; this is a survey snapshot from October–November 2025.

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Historical social trust1999

European Values Study / GESIS04 / 05

30.7% said most people can be trusted

Generalized social trustPOLISMETRIC · DATA

30.7%

0100%

Most people can be trusted

EVS 1999 Belgium public weighted variable report. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingThe European Values Study 1999 public weighted variable report shows 561 of 1,830 valid Belgian responses, or 30.7%, said most people can be trusted.

Independent source1,830 valid weighted responses for this item

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Historical social trust

30.7% said most people can be trusted

1999

Generalized social trustPOLISMETRIC · DATA

30.7%

0100%

Most people can be trusted

EVS 1999 Belgium public weighted variable report. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · 1999
Measure / group	Published value
Most people can be trusted	30.7%

Question / measure

Generally speaking, can most people be trusted?

Sample

1,830 valid weighted responses for this item

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

The European Values Study 1999 public weighted variable report shows 561 of 1,830 valid Belgian responses, or 30.7%, said most people can be trusted.

Evidence note

EVS 1999 Belgium public weighted variable report. Historical 1999 benchmark; public variable report only.

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Historical democratic satisfaction1999

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)05 / 05

57% were very or fairly satisfied with how democracy was working

Satisfaction with democracyPOLISMETRIC · DATA

Very satisfied1.8%Fairly satisfied55.2%Not very satisfied32.6%Not at all satisfied5%Don't know5.4%

CSES Module 1 Belgium-Flanders 1999. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingCSES Module 1 Belgium-Flanders results show 1.8% very satisfied and 55.2% fairly satisfied with how democracy was working, for 57.0% combined.

Independent sourceBelgium-Flanders CSES respondents; see study documentation

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Historical democratic satisfaction

57% were very or fairly satisfied with how democracy was working

1999

Satisfaction with democracyPOLISMETRIC · DATA

Very satisfied1.8%Fairly satisfied55.2%Not very satisfied32.6%Not at all satisfied5%Don't know5.4%

CSES Module 1 Belgium-Flanders 1999. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · 1999
Measure / group	Published value
Very satisfied	1.8%
Fairly satisfied	55.2%
Not very satisfied	32.6%
Not at all satisfied	5%
Don't know	5.4%

Question / measure

Satisfaction with the way democracy works

Sample

Belgium-Flanders CSES respondents; see study documentation

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

OPEN COMMERCIAL OK

Finding

CSES Module 1 Belgium-Flanders results show 1.8% very satisfied and 55.2% fairly satisfied with how democracy was working, for 57.0% combined.

Evidence note

CSES Module 1 Belgium-Flanders 1999 public documentation. Historical Flanders study rather than a current all-Belgium measure; 57% is the sum of two published categories.

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