Employment — national citizens

In 2006, Belgium's employment increased by 0.5% compared to 2005, reaching 3,917k.

Belgium accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 173,476k.

Belgium ranks 12th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 5.6% (from 3,709k in 2001).

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