Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2007, Netherlands's employment increased by 4.5% compared to 2006, reaching 257k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 11,090k.

Netherlands ranks 9th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 8.0% (from 280k in 2002).

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