Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Belgium's employment increased by 1.4% compared to 2007, reaching 4,060k.

Belgium accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

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 8.2% (from 3,754k in 2003).

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