Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2006, Spain's employment increased by 13.7% compared to 2005, reaching 1,750k.

Spain accounts for 28.0% of the EU-27 total of 6,258k.

Spain ranks 1st out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 250.6% (from 499k in 2001).

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