Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2006, Greece's employment decreased by 1.8% compared to 2005, reaching 245k.

Greece accounts for 3.9% of the EU-27 total of 6,258k.

Greece ranks 5th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 64.5% (from 149k in 2001).

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