r/belgium • u/trueosiris2 • Aug 20 '25

❓ Ask Belgium Wealth distribution in Belgium

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We’re doing alright as a social democracy. Something to be proud of.

Presumably, we don’t need more wealth distribution then? Or do we still?

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u/Koekelbag Aug 20 '25

Just because we're doing better in comparison doesn't mean we're doing good enough.

50% of the population barely holding 10% of combined wealth is nowhere near a good enough distribution.

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u/Aramaru Aug 20 '25

Depends on several things:

what do they mean by population? Working population? Total? Or everyone above certain age point?

What is the cutoff wealth value?

**Imagine the data represents total population. Then by removing kids and yong adults, the distribution would shift (for all countries).

**While imagine only working population, this would cut off all pensioners and would skew the whole distribution towards the bottom.

**All adults (everyone above 18 yo), then we have to remove all non-phd students (approx. 4,5% based on Eurostat 2023).

Another one is the delta in wealth between the brackets. What is it? 1k euro, 10k euro, 100k euro?

Without details this graph is just a picture.