Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2006, Netherlands's employment increased by 3.9% compared to 2005, reaching 147k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 6,258k.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 22.4% (from 190k in 2001).

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