Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Italy's employment decreased by 1.4% compared to 2009, reaching 20,246k.

Italy accounts for 11.8% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

Italy ranks 3rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 3.2% (from 20,906k in 2005).

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