Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Cyprus's employment increased by 1.2% compared to 2015, reaching 284k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

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 5.0% (from 299k in 2011).

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