Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2006, Ireland's employment stood at 255k.

Ireland accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 10,171k.

Ireland ranks 8th 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 271.6% (from 69k in 2001).

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