Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2017, Belgium's employment increased by 8.2% compared to 2016, reaching 366k.

Belgium accounts for 5.9% of the EU-27 total of 6,213k.

Belgium ranks 6th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 27.6% (from 287k in 2012).

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