Employment — national citizens

In 2013, Cyprus's employment decreased by 2.8% compared to 2012, reaching 280k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 169,933k.

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 fallen by 8.8% (from 307k in 2008).

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