Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2008, Netherlands's employment increased by 18.4% compared to 2007, reaching 184k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 7,477k.

Netherlands ranks 8th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.7% (from 175k in 2003).

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