Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2018, Belgium's employment increased by 0.5% compared to 2017, reaching 495k.

Belgium accounts for 3.3% of the EU-27 total of 14,821k.

Belgium ranks 6th 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 19.7% (from 413k in 2013).

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