Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2007, Belgium's employment increased by 5.8% compared to 2006, reaching 252k.

Belgium accounts for 5.9% of the EU-27 total of 4,247k.

Belgium ranks 5th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 13.8% (from 222k in 2002).

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