Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Slovakia's employment increased by 2.8% compared to 2015, reaching 2,465k.

Slovakia accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

Slovakia ranks 17th 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 7.2% (from 2,299k in 2011).

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