Employment — national citizens

In 2022, Belgium's employment increased by 1.7% compared to 2021, reaching 4,324k.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 180,106k.

Belgium ranks 12th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 5.7% (from 4,090k in 2017).

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