Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Netherlands's employment decreased by 0.0% compared to 2008, reaching 7,913k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

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 3.2% (from 7,672k in 2004).

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