Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Malta's employment increased by 2.5% compared to 2015, reaching 175k.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

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 9.1% (from 160k in 2011).

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