Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2009, Greece's employment increased by 14.3% compared to 2008, reaching 357k.

Greece accounts for 4.9% of the EU-27 total of 7,242k.

Greece ranks 5th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 49.6% (from 238k in 2004).

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