Employment — national citizens

In 2018, Malta's employment increased by 1.2% compared to 2017, reaching 182k.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 177,872k.

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 11.3% (from 163k in 2013).

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