Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2016, Italy's employment increased by 2.2% compared to 2015, reaching 782k.

Italy accounts for 13.1% of the EU-27 total of 5,949k.

Italy ranks 2nd out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 20.5% (from 649k in 2011).

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