Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2012, Netherlands's employment increased by 3.0% compared to 2011, reaching 164k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 6,979k.

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 5.3% (from 155k in 2007).

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