Employment — national citizens

In 2017, Belgium's employment increased by 0.5% compared to 2016, reaching 4,090k.

Belgium accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 176,807k.

Belgium ranks 12th 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 0.3% (from 4,078k in 2012).

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