Employment — national citizens

In 2025, Italy's employment increased by 0.2% compared to 2024, reaching 20,732k.

Italy accounts for 11.4% of the EU-27 total of 181,552k.

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 4.9% (from 19,759k in 2020).

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