Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2009, Cyprus's employment decreased by 5.1% compared to 2008, reaching 34k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 7,242k.

Cyprus ranks 16th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 37.9% (from 24k in 2004).

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