Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Netherlands's employment increased by 1.3% compared to 2015, reaching 7,797k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

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 0.1% (from 7,805k in 2011).

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