Employment — national citizens

In 2024, Belgium's employment increased by 0.1% compared to 2023, reaching 4,359k.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 181,463k.

Belgium ranks 12th 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 2.4% (from 4,258k in 2019).

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