Employment rates by citizenship

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for employment rates by citizenship was 75.4%.

That is a 0.1% rose versus 2024 (75.3%).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 3.6% higher.

Across member states, Netherlands reported the highest value (85.7%, 2025) and Belgium the lowest (70.6%, 2025).

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset lfsa_ergan; every value links back to the canonical source.