Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2004, Netherlands's employment decreased by 6.8% compared to 2003, reaching 163k.

Netherlands accounts for 3.6% of the EU-27 total of 4,520k.

Netherlands ranks 5th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 26.3% (from 129k in 1999).

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