Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Netherlands's employment increased by 1.8% compared to 2007, reaching 7,916k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

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 2.5% (from 7,723k in 2003).

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