Employment rates by educational attainment level

In 2007, Belgium's employment rates by educational attainment level increased by 1.6% compared to 2006, reaching 84.9%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 84.6%.

Belgium ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.6% (from 83.6% in 2002).

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