Employment — national citizens

In 2017, Slovakia's employment increased by 1.2% compared to 2016, reaching 2,494k.

Slovakia accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 176,807k.

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 7.8% (from 2,313k in 2012).

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