Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2016, Belgium's employment increased by 1.6% compared to 2015, reaching 338k.

Belgium accounts for 5.7% of the EU-27 total of 5,949k.

Belgium ranks 6th 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 17.4% (from 288k in 2011).

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