Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2019, Belgium's employment increased by 2.6% compared to 2018, reaching 126k.

Belgium accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 8,824k.

Belgium ranks 11th 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 10.7% (from 114k in 2014).

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