Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2012, Italy's employment increased by 2.0% compared to 2011, reaching 663k.

Italy accounts for 14.0% of the EU-27 total of 4,719k.

Italy ranks 2nd 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 88.7% (from 351k in 2007).

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