Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2007, Italy's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 0.6% compared to 2006, reaching 22,517k.

Italy accounts for 12.0% of the EU-27 total of 187,733k.

Italy ranks 3rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 5.1% (from 21,416k in 2002).

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