Employment — national citizens

In 2017, Netherlands's employment increased by 1.5% compared to 2016, reaching 7,917k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 176,807k.

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 1.4% (from 7,805k in 2012).

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