Employment — national citizens

In 2005, Netherlands's employment decreased by 2.6% compared to 2004, reaching 7,472k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 167,216k.

Netherlands ranks 7th 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 0.4% (from 7,502k in 2000).

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