Employment — national citizens

In 2024, Italy's employment increased by 0.9% compared to 2023, reaching 20,699k.

Italy accounts for 11.4% of the EU-27 total of 181,463k.

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 grown by 2.8% (from 20,127k in 2019).

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