Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Italy's employment increased by 1.2% compared to 2015, reaching 19,863k.

Italy accounts for 11.4% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

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 1.6% (from 20,196k in 2011).

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