Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2004, Belgium's employment increased by 0.7% compared to 2003, reaching 69k.

Belgium accounts for 1.5% of the EU-27 total of 4,520k.

Belgium ranks 9th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 13.9% (from 80k in 1999).

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