Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2008, Italy's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 0.8% compared to 2007, reaching 22,699k.

Italy accounts for 12.0% of the EU-27 total of 189,881k.

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 4.5% (from 21,716k in 2003).

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