Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2007, Spain's employment increased by 14.8% compared to 2006, reaching 750k.

Spain accounts for 17.7% of the EU-27 total of 4,247k.

Spain ranks 2nd out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 175.5% (from 272k in 2002).

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