Description
The French Community of Belgium includes 4.3 million people, of which:
- 3.4 million (80%) live in the Walloon Region (that is almost the entirety of the inhabitants of this region, apart from people who live in the German-speaking communes, who number around 70,000);
- 0.9 million (20%) living in the Brussels-Capital Region (out of 1.1 million inhabitants).
French-speakers who live in the Flemish Region are not included in the official numbers for the French-speaking Community. Their number is unknown, given the absence of sub-nationality status and the discouragement of linguistic criteria in census-taking. Estimates of the French-speaking population of Flanders vary from 120,000, around 200,000, to around 300,000.
The French Community of Belgium makes up 41% of the total population of Belgium, to be compared with 58% for the Flemish Community and 1% for the German-speaking Community).
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