Employment — national citizens

In 2017, Malta's employment increased by 2.7% compared to 2016, reaching 179k.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 176,807k.

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 13.0% (from 159k in 2012).

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