Côte d’Ivoire (120th) has experienced the greatest improvement in its prosperity of any country in the world in the past decade. It has seen major improvements in all pillars apart from Personal Freedom and Natural Environment, rising 24 places in the global rankings as a result. It has made particularly strong progress in Economic Quality since 2011, with high-tech manufactured exports more than doubling as a share of total exports.
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Belgium
Ranked 23rd of 167
23
rd
on the Legatum
Prosperity Index™
OVERALL PROSPERITY
Belgium is 23rd in the overall Prosperity Index rankings. Since 2011, Belgium has moved down the rankings table by 2 places.
PILLAR RANKINGS
Belgium performs most strongly in Living Conditions and Infrastructure & Market Access but is weakest in Social Capital. The biggest improvement compared to a decade ago came in Natural Environment.
Visit our Rankings table to see how Belgium compares to other countries.
When comparing multiple countries on a spider chart, data points that appear
further away from the center represent a better performance to the points that are closer to the center.