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[|Source] Belgium was developing really fast through out the years as we can see on the graph above. The Infant mortality rate is decreasing at the sametime their life expectancy are increasing, and by 2007 it has a Life expectancy of 79 years and Infant mortality rate of 3.9. Belgium is really developed nowaday in it's region, however compare to another country in it's region, Iceland seems to be even mroe developed since it has a Life exectancy of 81 years and Infant mortality rate of 2.. The brief trend of Belgium is developing toward upper left which means that it is getting better. Compare to other region countries such as Congo with a Life expectancy of 53 years and a Infant mortality rate of 79, Belgium is at the lead Globally.

__** I nfant Mortality **__  -Current Infant Mortality rate: 3.9 [|Source] [|Source] Belgium has a Infant mortality rate of 4(<10). The trend of Belgium's infant mortality is decreasing over time from 8 in year 1990 to 4 in 2006. as we can see on the grapgh above Belgium compare to the rest of the world, most of the countries are dark yellow and orange (above 10), however Belgium has a yellow white colour which indicates a really low Infant mortality rate(below 10).

__**Life Expectancy: **__  -Current Life Expectancy for Men: 73 [|Source]

-Current Life Expectancy for Women: 79 [|Source] Over all: 79 [|Source] The trend of Belgium's life expectancy is steadily increasing over time, at first 1990-2000 it incresed from 76 to 78, and then the increasing speed slows down, from2000-2006 it increases from 78 to 79.

__** Leading Causes of Death **__
 * Disease || Number of total deaths by disease || % of total Deaths || Cause (may fit more than one category)

Nutrition, degenerative, water/vector borne, accidental || [|Source]
 * 1. Coronary Heart Disease || 16.204 || 19.99 || degenerative ||
 * 2. Stroke || 10,132 || 12.50 || degenerative ||
 * 3. Lung cancers || 6.939 || 8.56 || degenerative ||
 * 4. Lung disease || 4.896 || 6.04 || degenerative ||
 * 5. Alzheimers/Dementia || 4.223 || 5.21 || degenerative, accidental ||
 * 6. Influenza & Pneumonia || 3,921 || 4.84 || degenerative, water/vector borne ||
 * 7. Colon-Rectum Cancers || 3,574 || 4.41 || Nutrition ||
 * 8. Breast Cancer || 2,708 || 3.34 || degenerative ||
 * 9. Prostate Cancer || 2,217 || 2,73 || degenerative ||
 * 10. Suicide || 2,101 || 2.59 || accidental ||
 * 11. Diabetes mellitus || 1,801 || 2.22 || Nutrition, degenerative ||
 * 12. Road Traffic Accidents || 1,382 || 1.70 || accidental ||
 * 13. Liver Disease || 1,373 || 1.69 || degenerative, Nutrition, viruses ||
 * 14. Lymphomas || 1,340 || 1.65 || degenerative, viruses ||
 * 15. falls || 1,334 || 1.65 || degenerative, accidental ||

__** In conclusion: **__ B﻿elgium has been improving it’s living quality over time and now being one of the leading countries to get higher life expectancy and lower Infant mortality. Belgium is one of the developed country and it has a high life expectancy (79 years) compare with other developing countries such as Brazil (70years). Although compare to other developed country such as France (81 years) Belgium still needs to catch up a little. Belgium compare to other countries has a extremely low Infant Mortality Rate (4 deaths per 1000 born). Belgium are mainly affected by many degenerative disease such as Coronary Heart Disease, Lung cancer and Stroke. The reasons that Belgium suffers from those kind of disease is probably because of people’s lifestyle and some gene heredity. The lifestyle is one problem because they love to eat meat cheese and chocolate, which all contains lots of fats and oil, and beer is really popular in Belgium’s diet, those can cause High cholesterol hypertension and obesity, which increased the possibility of getting those disease. This can be prevent by correcting their diet and increasing the frequency of Physical examination so that people will put more attention towards their health. However Belgium is getting great progresses on it’s health as mentioned above, which can be consider as a fairly developed country.