Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2003, Ireland's employment increased by 9.8% compared to 2002, reaching 20k.

Ireland accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 2,961k.

Ireland ranks 13th out of 18 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 100.0% (from 10k in 1998).

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