🇧🇪 Belgium·Household net worth by age·ECB HFCS 2023
How does your net worth compare for your age in Belgium?
Enter your age and net worth. See exactly where you stand among households in your age group.
I'm years old with a household net worth of €.
vs. the typical household aged 35–44
1.7×
the median for your age
Age 35–44 median: 177 700 €
Nationally (all ages): top 44%
You hold 1.7× the net worth of the typical household in your age group. The mean for your age is 391 200 €, pulled up by the wealthiest few.
The wealth lifecycle
Net worth builds, peaks, then plateaus.
Each point is the median household net worth for an age bracket (solid cyan), with the mean above it (dashed violet). The gap between the two lines is the wealth concentration in that bracket. Your point sits at your age, at the net worth you entered.
Median (typical household) Mean (pulled up by the wealthiest) You
Median and mean household net wealth by age of the reference person. ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Tables A3 and A4; fieldwork by the National Bank of Belgium. Within-bracket percentiles are not published.
All six age brackets
Median and mean, decade by decade.
Your bracket is highlighted. The multiple shown is your net worth against that bracket's median, useful for seeing how you would rank if you were older or younger.
Under 35
97 k €
3.1× median
35–44you
178 k €
1.7× median
45–54
281 k €
1.1× median
55–64
338 k €
89% of median
65–74
275 k €
1.1× median
75 and over
334 k €
90% of median
Three numbers worth the asterisk
What the age curve hides.
The retirement plateau
Belgian wealth stays near its peak after retirement.
The median peaks at €337,800 at ages 55-64 and is still €334,400 at 75 and over, within 1% of the peak (HFCS 2023). The paid-off family home is rarely sold, so Belgian households stay wealthy on paper throughout retirement.
Mean vs median
The national mean is 1.6× the national median.
411 500 € mean versus 254 200 € median. The wealthiest 10% of households hold 42.4% of all net wealth in Belgium (HFCS 2023), so the average is a poor description of a typical household.
No within-age percentiles
The HFCS does not publish percentiles inside each age bracket.
The survey publishes the median and mean per bracket, not P10 or P90 within it. This page compares your value to your bracket's median and mean, and to the national all-ages distribution.
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Frequently asked questions
Based on ECB HFCS Wave 2023 data (fieldwork 2023), a household net wealth of €927,900 places you in the top 10% in Belgium. HFCS Statistical Tables Table J3 does not publish top-5% or top-1% thresholds; the highest published quantile is the 90th percentile. These figures include real estate equity (after mortgage), financial assets, and business equity.
The median Belgian household has a net wealth of €254,200 (ECB HFCS Wave 2023), one of the very highest medians in the euro area. Only Luxembourg, Malta and Ireland rank higher. The mean is €411,500. The National Bank of Belgium's macro-adjusted Distributional Wealth Accounts put the median even higher, at €291,641 in Q4 2024, versus €152,480 for the euro area as a whole.
Two reasons: homeownership and low debt. 66.7% of Belgian households own their main residence (HFCS 2023), and housing makes up about half of household assets (NBB). The Belgian median of €254,200 is about 1.8 times the euro-area median (€140,100) and roughly 2.5 times the German median (€103,300). Many Belgians don't feel rich because that wealth sits in the family home, not in a bank account.
Belgian median net wealth rises steeply through working life (HFCS 2023): €97,200 for households headed by someone under 35, €177,700 at 35-44, €280,500 at 45-54, and a peak of €337,800 at 55-64. It stays high in retirement, €274,500 at 65-74 and €334,400 at 75+, because Belgian retirees typically keep the paid-off family home.
A household net worth of €500,000 places you between the 70th percentile (€446,100) and the 80th percentile (€620,700). That is more wealth than roughly three out of four Belgian households, though the top 10% starts much higher at €927,900.
Less than in most euro-area countries. Belgium's mean-to-median ratio is about 1.6 versus about 3.1 in Germany (HFCS 2023), and a household at the 90th percentile owns about 3.7 times the median household's wealth versus about 7.5 times in Germany. The NBB puts the Gini coefficient of Belgian net wealth at 0.62 (2021). That is high compared to income, as everywhere, but low by European wealth standards.
A net worth of €1,000,000 is above the 90th percentile (€927,900), so a millionaire household is inside the top 10% in Belgium (HFCS 2023). Wealth is concentrated above that line: according to the NBB's Distributional Wealth Accounts, the richest 10% of households held 54.9% of total net wealth in Q4 2024, while the least wealthy half held 8.3%.
The mean net wealth of Belgian households is €411,500 (ECB HFCS Wave 2023), about 1.6 times the median of €254,200. The mean is pulled up by a small number of very wealthy households, so the median is the better single number for a typical household.
Median net wealth by age of the household's reference person (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table A3): under 35: €97,200; 35-44: €177,700; 45-54: €280,500; 55-64: €337,800; 65-74: €274,500; 75 and over: €334,400. The corresponding means are considerably higher in every bracket, for example €530,400 at 55-64.
Between HFCS Wave 2021 and Wave 2023, the Belgian median net wealth rose from €242,400 to €254,200 (about +5%) and the mean from €408,000 to €411,500. The homeownership rate recorded by the survey fell from 72.4% to 66.7%. The NBB's quarterly Distributional Wealth Accounts show the median continuing to climb after the survey, to €291,641 by Q4 2024.