Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2021, Belgium's employment increased by 15.0% compared to 2020, reaching 131k.

Belgium accounts for 1.5% of the EU-27 total of 8,798k.

Belgium ranks 9th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 3.6% (from 126k in 2016).

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