Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2017, Italy's employment increased by 0.8% compared to 2016, reaching 1,609k.

Italy accounts for 20.4% of the EU-27 total of 7,876k.

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 12.0% (from 1,437k in 2012).

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