Employment — national citizens

In 2025, Belgium's employment increased by 1.3% compared to 2024, reaching 4,416k.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 181,552k.

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 4.2% (from 4,240k in 2020).

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