press rank #15 · 
~$2,000/mo
Can you live unwatched in Belgium?
Compulsory eID, EU institutional hub, quietly bureaucratic.
The privacy scorecard
6 cameras / 1,000 people press rank #15 ~$2,000/mo national average
Childhood vaccines: compulsory by law1 in total
Belgium makes exactly one vaccine compulsory, polio, by a royal decree of 1966, and recommends all the others.
If you skip them: For polio, a fine and, on the books, eight days to a month in jail. Nobody serves it.
Exemptions: Medical only.
Source: Vaccines 2024;12:1296, European survey
Legal & financial exposure
Facts about the law, not a privacy score: whether each one helps or hurts depends on what you are trying to do.
Reports your account balances abroad (CRS)
Extradition treaty with the US
Crypto gains tax-free after a holding period
Exempt as "normal management of private assets"; taxed at 33% if deemed speculative or professional.
4 of 7 signals are unverified for this country: not shown, rather than guessed.
6 real places in Belgium
Facial recognition, Bitcoin friendliness and cost vary by city even inside the same country.
Brussels
~$2,050/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5Antwerp
~$1,900/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5Ghent
~$2,100/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5Bruges
~$2,150/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5Leuven
~$2,000/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5Dinant
~$1,850/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5Weigh Belgium against your own threat model
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