Distribution of euthanized people in Belgium 2022, by age
Belgium registered very few euthanasias among younger patients. For example, in 2022, only 1.2 percent of patients aged under 40 years old had been euthanized. In December 2013, the Belgian Senate extended the law on euthanasia to terminally ill children. However, according to the federal commission in charge of evaluating the practice of euthanasia in the country, no minor had been euthanized in 2022.