Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2017, Ireland's employment increased by 9.6% compared to 2016, reaching 127k.

Ireland accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 7,876k.

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 15.0% (from 111k in 2012).

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