Employment — national citizens

In 2011, Netherlands's employment decreased by 0.2% compared to 2010, reaching 7,805k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 171,906k.

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 3.1% (from 7,569k in 2006).

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