Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Netherlands's employment increased by 2.7% compared to 2006, reaching 7,776k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.4% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.3% (from 7,756k in 2002).

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