Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2016, Cyprus's employment increased by 0.9% compared to 2015, reaching 70k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 13,375k.

Cyprus ranks 18th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 19.9% (from 88k in 2011).

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