Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2021, Belgium's employment increased by 5.6% compared to 2020, reaching 406k.

Belgium accounts for 6.5% of the EU-27 total of 6,286k.

Belgium ranks 6th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 20.1% (from 338k in 2016).

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