Employment — national citizens

In 2020, Italy's employment decreased by 1.8% compared to 2019, reaching 19,759k.

Italy accounts for 11.2% of the EU-27 total of 176,467k.

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 grown by 0.6% (from 19,636k in 2015).

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