Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Romania's employment decreased by 0.8% compared to 2008, reaching 8,795k.

Romania accounts for 5.0% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

Romania ranks 6th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.2% (from 8,780k in 2004).

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