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Belgium ~137.372

Roughly ~137.372 people are active on and around AT Protocol in Belgium.

Two main numbers

Confirmed accounts in Belgium 2.236 deduplicated DIDs
Modelled total 137.372 estimated
The whole bar is the modelled total; the filled part is what we can confirm today: 2.236 of ~137.372, about 2%. That share climbs the longer we measure, though it never reaches 100%.

How we estimate this

AT Protocol has no country field, so we cannot count directly. We measure posting activity per language across Europe, weight each language to the countries where its speakers live, and calibrate the whole model to the Dutch figure on atproto.nl. Language only feeds the estimate; it never confirms that an account belongs to Belgium.

What we can stand behind

2.236 accounts we can place in Belgium for certain, each from a deliberate signal. The real number is higher, which is what the estimate models.

Where these accounts come from

Those 2.236 accounts by the signal that placed each one. Every account is counted once, under its strongest signal.

Community verifier 1.426 On a country community's verifier list.
Country domain 783 A country-code handle (for example ending in .be).
Sifa location 14 A location in the country on their Sifa profile.
Company domain 13 Works at a company with a domain in the country (via Sifa).

What these accounts show

Every did:plc identity has a public log, and every repo lists the collections it holds. That tells us when these accounts were created, where they run, and which apps they use. This covers the 2.236 accounts we could read in Belgium, a shape rather than a census.

When these accounts were created

2023/012023/072024/012024/072025/012025/072026/012026/07
Creation date from the PLC directory, by month. This is when the account was made, not when we identified it.

Which apps they use, beyond Bluesky

159 accounts (7%) of the 2.236 use anything other than Bluesky. When they do, this is what they use:

standard.site 42
Flashes 36
mu.social 33
Anisota 29
Tangled 26
community lexicons 25
Sifa 23
Pinksky 21
bsky38.com 17
popfeed.social 14
Leaflet 13
cosmik.network 12
stream.place 12
pckt.blog 11

Accounts holding records from that app in their repo, counted once per app. Bluesky's own collections are left out, since nearly everyone has them. This only sees apps that write their own records. A read-only client leaves nothing in a repo, so it cannot appear here however heavily it is used.

By record type
  • site.standard.publication 35 accounts
  • blue.flashes.actor.profile 34 accounts
  • social.mu.newsFeedPrefs 33 accounts
  • site.standard.document 29 accounts
  • sh.tangled.actor.profile 26 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.self 22 accounts
  • net.anisota.beta.game.log 22 accounts
  • net.anisota.beta.game.session 22 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.position 21 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.skill 21 accounts
  • social.pinksky.app.preference 21 accounts
  • site.standard.graph.subscription 20 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.education 19 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.language 19 accounts
  • blue.flashes.feed.post 17 accounts
  • com.bsky38.influential.vote 17 accounts
  • id.sifa.graph.follow 16 accounts
  • sh.tangled.graph.follow 16 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.externalAccount 15 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.location 14 accounts
  • social.popfeed.actor.profile 13 accounts
  • id.sifa.profile.certification 12 accounts
  • place.stream.chat.profile 12 accounts
  • sh.tangled.publicKey 12 accounts
  • sh.tangled.repo 12 accounts
  • blog.pckt.publication 11 accounts
  • site.standard.graph.recommend 11 accounts
  • dev.npmx.actor.profile 11 accounts
  • sh.tangled.feed.star 11 accounts
  • social.popfeed.feed.list 11 accounts

Where they run

Bluesky hosted 92.5% elsewhere 7.5%

168 accounts (7.5%) live on a PDS outside Bluesky's own hosting.

What it cannot see

People who post mainly in English are invisible to a language model, so an English-first account in Belgium is not captured, which is part of why the real number sits above the confirmed floor.

Updated 2026-09-25.

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