Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2009, Belgium's employment increased by 1.6% compared to 2008, reaching 356k.

Belgium accounts for 3.0% of the EU-27 total of 11,777k.

Belgium ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 19.5% (from 298k in 2004).

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