Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Germany's employment increased by 1.5% compared to 2015, reaching 35,812k.

Germany accounts for 20.5% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

Germany ranks 1st 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 2.4% (from 34,974k in 2011).

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