Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2008, Ireland's employment increased by 0.9% compared to 2007, reaching 140k.

Ireland accounts for 1.9% of the EU-27 total of 7,477k.

Ireland ranks 10th 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 90.4% (from 74k in 2003).

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