Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2010, Belgium's employment increased by 7.6% compared to 2009, reaching 284k.

Belgium accounts for 6.3% of the EU-27 total of 4,485k.

Belgium ranks 5th out of 22 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 24.0% (from 229k in 2005).

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