Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Slovakia's employment decreased by 2.7% compared to 2008, reaching 2,352k.

Slovakia accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

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 10.1% (from 2,136k in 2004).

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