Employment — national citizens

In 2013, Malta's employment increased by 2.7% compared to 2012, reaching 163k.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 169,933k.

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 6.3% (from 153k in 2008).

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