Employment — national citizens

In 2020, Belgium's employment decreased by 0.4% compared to 2019, reaching 4,240k.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 176,467k.

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 5.2% (from 4,030k in 2015).

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