For other uses, see Butterfingers (disambiguation). For the Canadian band, see Butterfinger (Canadian band). Butterfinger is a candy bar created in 1923 in Chicago, Illinois by Otto Schnering, which currently is manufactured by NestlÃ©. The bar consists of a crispy core of creamy peanut butter blended with sugar candy in chocolatey coating.
Yearly Population Growth Rate 1  (%) The current population of Belgium is 11,428,484 as of Saturday, April 15, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates. 2  Belgium population is equivalent to 0.15% of the total world population. 3  Belgium ranks number 80 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
Brussels is also the de facto capital of the European Union. Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne to a sizeable city. The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium.espite what its name suggests, the Brussels-Capital Region is not the capital of Belgium in itself. Article 194 of the Belgian Constitution establishes that the capital of Belgium is the City of Brussels, the municipality within the capital region that once was the city's core.