Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Slovakia's employment increased by 3.0% compared to 2007, reaching 2,418k.

Slovakia accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

Slovakia ranks 18th 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 12.2% (from 2,156k in 2003).

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