Figures released by the European statistics agency Eurostat on Friday show that Belgium and our northern neighbour The Netherlands have the highest job vacancy rates in the whole of the European Union. In Eurozone the job vacancy rate stood at 2.6% during the second quarter, while for the EU as a whole it was 2.4%. Both these figures are down on the first quarter of 2024.
Belgium and The Netherlands had the highest job vacancy rates in the EU during the 2nd quarter of 2024
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Belgium and The Netherlands were both way above this with job vacancy rates of 4.4% in both countries.
Belgium was last top of the list of EU countries when it comes to job vacancies in the third quarter of last year but then slipped back to second place.
The job vacancy rate in Belgium remained unchanged from what it was in the first quarter. However, Austria, which had the highest number of job vacancies in the first quarter (4.5%), has now dropped to third place (4.0%).
The lowest vacancy rates were recorded in Romania (0.7%), Bulgaria (0.8%), Poland and Spain (both 0.9%).