Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2020, Belgium's employment decreased by 9.5% compared to 2019, reaching 114k.

Belgium accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 8,669k.

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 fallen by 13.7% (from 132k in 2015).

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