Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Belgium's employment decreased by 0.7% compared to 2008, reaching 4,030k.

Belgium accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

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 5.5% (from 3,822k in 2004).

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