Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2009, Belgium's employment increased by 3.6% compared to 2008, reaching 92k.

Belgium accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 7,242k.

Belgium ranks 13th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 33.4% (from 69k in 2004).

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