Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Austria's employment increased by 1.4% compared to 2007, reaching 3,526k.

Austria accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

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 5.3% (from 3,349k in 2003).

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