Employment — national citizens

In 2005, Belgium's employment increased by 1.9% compared to 2004, reaching 3,895k.

Belgium accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 167,216k.

Belgium ranks 12th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.9% (from 3,784k in 2000).

Source: Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.