Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2008, Greece's employment increased by 15.9% compared to 2007, reaching 312k.

Greece accounts for 4.2% of the EU-27 total of 7,477k.

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 46.2% (from 214k in 2003).

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