Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2003, Spain's employment increased by 25.8% compared to 2002, reaching 965k.

Spain accounts for 22.1% of the EU-27 total of 4,357k.

Spain ranks 2nd out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 562.6% (from 146k in 1998).

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