Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2002, Spain's employment increased by 53.7% compared to 2001, reaching 767k.

Spain accounts for 17.8% of the EU-27 total of 4,304k.

Spain ranks 2nd out of 19 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 565.1% (from 115k in 1997).

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