Jews in Belgium: A demographic and social portrait of two Jewish populations

Jewish population size estimates for Belgium have not been assessed systematically for many years, and researchers have not had the data to be able to clearly say what the population looks like in terms of its age, education, religiosity, and patterns of migration. This lack of a detailed assessment has meant that community leaders have had no up-to-date demographic information to help inform community planning and that there have been persistent difficulties in assessing the representativeness of surveys of the Belgian Jewish population.

JPR's report, ‘Jews in Belgium: a demographic and social portrait of two Jewish populations’, fills this data vacuum with a thorough assessment of the size and structure of this important European Jewish population, following an extensive demographic data collection project spanning eighteen months.