Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Belgium's employment increased by 2.3% compared to 2006, reaching 4,005k.

Belgium accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

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 7.2% (from 3,735k in 2002).

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