Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Spain's employment increased by 1.9% compared to 2006, reaching 17,720k.

Spain accounts for 10.0% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

Spain ranks 4th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 13.4% (from 15,624k in 2002).

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