Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2018, Netherlands's employment increased by 17.5% compared to 2017, reaching 206k.

Netherlands accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 8,309k.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 32.4% (from 156k in 2013).

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