Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2011, Netherlands's employment increased by 1.4% compared to 2010, reaching 159k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 7,013k.

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 grown by 7.9% (from 147k in 2006).

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