Employment — national citizens

In 2014, Netherlands's employment decreased by 1.2% compared to 2013, reaching 7,631k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.4% of the EU-27 total of 171,547k.

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 fallen by 3.6% (from 7,913k in 2009).

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