Employment — national citizens

In 2017, Cyprus's employment increased by 4.1% compared to 2016, reaching 296k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 176,807k.

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 2.6% (from 288k in 2012).

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