Employment — national citizens

In 2007, France's employment increased by 1.4% compared to 2006, reaching 24,208k.

France accounts for 13.7% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

France ranks 2nd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 7.8% (from 22,466k in 2002).

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