Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Greece's employment decreased by 0.1% compared to 2007, reaching 4,145k.

Greece accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

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 3.1% (from 4,021k in 2003).

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