Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2017, Netherlands's employment increased by 6.8% compared to 2016, reaching 175k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.2% of the EU-27 total of 7,876k.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 7.2% (from 164k in 2012).

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