Employment — national citizens

In 2006, Netherlands's employment increased by 1.3% compared to 2005, reaching 7,569k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.4% of the EU-27 total of 173,476k.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.1% (from 7,657k in 2001).

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