This statistic shows the share of the young population in Belgium that would be willing to fight for their country in wartime in 2016 and 2017, by age. In this period, 47 percent of the Belgian respondents that were 16 or 17 years old reported to be willing to fight for their country in wartime.
In wartime, would you be willing to fight for your country?
* n (16-17) = 2,726, n (18-25) = 21,478, n (26-34) = 16,517, n (34+) = 3,098. Although the survey is specifically focused on the generation aged between 16 and 34 years, people older than 34 were also able to answer the survey questions, hence the category 34 years and older.
The statistic displayed above shows the share of the respondents answering yes to the question.
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