Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2007, Netherlands's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 2.8% compared to 2006, reaching 8,057k.

Netherlands accounts for 4.3% of the EU-27 total of 187,733k.

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 fallen by 0.4% (from 8,092k in 2002).

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