Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2005, Netherlands's employment decreased by 13.3% compared to 2004, reaching 142k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 5,830k.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 22.9% (from 184k in 2000).

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