Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Cyprus's employment decreased by 0.9% compared to 2008, reaching 304k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

Cyprus ranks 25th 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 7.1% (from 284k in 2004).

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