Employment — national citizens

In 2006, Austria's employment increased by 1.9% compared to 2005, reaching 3,420k.

Austria accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 173,476k.

Austria ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 3.5% (from 3,306k in 2001).

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