Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2012, Italy's employment increased by 4.9% compared to 2011, reaching 1,437k.

Italy accounts for 20.6% of the EU-27 total of 6,979k.

Italy ranks 2nd out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 31.7% (from 1,091k in 2007).

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