Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2014, Ireland's employment decreased by 6.4% compared to 2013, reaching 100k.

Ireland accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 6,910k.

Ireland ranks 11th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 22.7% (from 129k in 2009).

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