Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Netherlands's employment decreased by 1.2% compared to 2009, reaching 7,822k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

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 grown by 4.7% (from 7,472k in 2005).

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