Employment — national citizens

In 2006, Greece's employment increased by 2.0% compared to 2005, reaching 4,138k.

Greece accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 173,476k.

Greece ranks 11th 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 4.6% (from 3,956k in 2001).

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