Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2005, Germany's employment increased by 0.1% compared to 2004, reaching 1,626k.

Germany accounts for 27.9% of the EU-27 total of 5,830k.

Germany ranks 1st out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 4.4% (from 1,700k in 2000).

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