Employment — national citizens

In 2016, France's employment increased by 0.2% compared to 2015, reaching 24,772k.

France accounts for 14.2% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

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 2.5% (from 24,175k in 2011).

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