Employment — national citizens

In 2015, Netherlands's employment increased by 0.9% compared to 2014, reaching 7,697k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 172,924k.

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 1.6% (from 7,822k in 2010).

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