Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2012, Cyprus's employment decreased by 6.5% compared to 2011, reaching 39k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 6,979k.

Cyprus ranks 16th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 20.2% (from 32k in 2007).

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