Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2019, Italy's employment increased by 1.0% compared to 2018, reaching 1,578k.

Italy accounts for 17.9% of the EU-27 total of 8,824k.

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 2.2% (from 1,544k in 2014).

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