Belgium
Belgium
Science in Belgium
Belgium is the birthplace of Smurfs, French fries and the saxophone. It's easy to forget that we also have a Belgian to thank for a central theory in physics: the theory of the big bang, according to which our universe emerged from a single explosion. It was invented by the Belgian physicist and mathematician Georges Henri Lemaître at the end of the 1920s. Researchers now have a pretty good idea of how much time has passed since the Big Bang: around 13.7 billion years.
The Facts
| Population | 11,743,772 [1] |
| Area | 30,280 km² [2] |
| Gross domestic product per capita in US-Dollar | 53,659.0 [3] |
| Public expenditure on education (share of GDP) | 6.7 % [4] |
| Share of female researchers | 34.8 % |
| Universities | 81 |
| Universities per 1 million inhabitants | 7.10 |
| Students | 512,097 |
| Expenditure on Research and Development (share of GDP) | 2.8 (share of GDP) [5] |
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https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/belgien.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
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https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/belgien.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
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https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/belgien.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
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