Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Belgium's employment increased by 1.0% compared to 2009, reaching 4,070k.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

Belgium ranks 11th 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 4.5% (from 3,895k in 2005).

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