Employment — national citizens

In 2012, Malta's employment decreased by 0.9% compared to 2011, reaching 159k.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 170,872k.

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 5.5% (from 150k in 2007).

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