Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2018, Ireland's employment increased by 12.6% compared to 2017, reaching 143k.

Ireland accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 8,309k.

Ireland ranks 9th 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 34.3% (from 107k in 2013).

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