Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2007, Ireland's employment increased by 27.1% compared to 2006, reaching 139k.

Ireland accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 6,842k.

Ireland ranks 9th 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 135.8% (from 59k in 2002).

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