Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2016, Italy's employment increased by 1.6% compared to 2015, reaching 1,596k.

Italy accounts for 21.5% of the EU-27 total of 7,426k.

Italy ranks 2nd out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 16.5% (from 1,370k in 2011).

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