Employment — national citizens

In 2014, Cyprus's employment increased by 2.1% compared to 2013, reaching 286k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 171,547k.

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 6.0% (from 304k in 2009).

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