Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2005, Cyprus's employment increased by 17.3% compared to 2004, reaching 29k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 5,830k.

Cyprus ranks 13th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 52.4% (from 19k in 2000).

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