Employment — national citizens

In 2005, Germany's employment increased by 2.2% compared to 2004, reaching 32,826k.

Germany accounts for 19.6% of the EU-27 total of 167,216k.

Germany ranks 1st out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.5% (from 32,989k in 2000).

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