Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2016, Netherlands's employment increased by 6.6% compared to 2015, reaching 176k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.9% of the EU-27 total of 5,949k.

Netherlands ranks 8th 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 38.3% (from 127k in 2011).

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