Employment — national citizens

In 2019, Belgium's employment increased by 1.3% compared to 2018, reaching 4,258k.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 179,061k.

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 4.9% (from 4,060k in 2014).

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