Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2005, Spain's employment increased by 27.9% compared to 2004, reaching 1,539k.

Spain accounts for 26.4% of the EU-27 total of 5,830k.

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 422.3% (from 295k in 2000).

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