Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Malta's employment increased by 1.6% compared to 2009, reaching 155k.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

Malta ranks 26th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 7.6% (from 144k in 2005).

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