Employment — national citizens

In 2021, Italy's employment decreased by 0.6% compared to 2020, reaching 19,641k.

Italy accounts for 11.1% of the EU-27 total of 177,389k.

Italy ranks 3rd out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.1% (from 19,863k in 2016).

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