Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2008, Belgium's employment increased by 1.7% compared to 2007, reaching 89k.

Belgium accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 7,477k.

Belgium ranks 12th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 29.7% (from 68k in 2003).

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