Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2019, Ireland's employment increased by 8.7% compared to 2018, reaching 156k.

Ireland accounts for 1.8% of the EU-27 total of 8,824k.

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 55.9% (from 100k in 2014).

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