As of 2019, getting an incurable illness and uncontrolled migration were among the greatest fears of people living in Dutch-speaking Belgium. Close to 75 percent of people surveyed indicated that they feared becoming incurably ill, and approximately 70 percent of respondents were worried about uncontrolled migration. Meanwhile the share of respondents who were concerned about climate change was 66 percent.
Greatest fears of people living in Dutch-speaking Belgium in 2019*
Dutch-speaking population living in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region with the Belgian nationality
Method of interview
Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)
Supplementary notes
* The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey.
The results have been weighted to represent the entire population of Dutch-speaking Belgium.
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