Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2009, Belgium's employment increased by 1.0% compared to 2008, reaching 264k.

Belgium accounts for 5.8% of the EU-27 total of 4,535k.

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 15.3% (from 229k in 2004).

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