Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Lithuania's employment decreased by 7.5% compared to 2008, reaching 1,284k.

Lithuania accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

Lithuania ranks 21st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 8.1% (from 1,397k in 2004).

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