Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2007, Netherlands's employment increased by 5.4% compared to 2006, reaching 155k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 6,842k.

Netherlands ranks 8th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 11.8% (from 176k in 2002).

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