Employment — national citizens

In 2002, Germany's employment decreased by 0.8% compared to 2001, reaching 32,834k.

Germany accounts for 27.5% of the EU-27 total of 119,460k.

Germany ranks 1st out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.2% (from 32,122k in 1997).

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