Employment — national citizens

In 2019, Netherlands's employment increased by 1.2% compared to 2018, reaching 8,147k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 179,061k.

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 6.8% (from 7,631k in 2014).

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