Employment — national citizens

In 2015, Cyprus's employment decreased by 1.9% compared to 2014, reaching 281k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 172,924k.

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 6.6% (from 300k in 2010).

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