lfsa_egan · 2002–2025
Employment — foreign citizens (any)
Eurostat lfsa_egan — Employed persons by citizenship. Data range: 1995 to 2025.
At a glance
In 2025, the EU-27 figure for employment was 19,955k .
That is a 3.8% rose versus 2024 (19,223k).
Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 32.6% higher.
Across member states, Germany reported the highest value (6,136k, 2025) and Bulgaria the lowest (10k, 2025) — a ratio of 639.2× between the two ends of the range.
The figures below come from Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan; every value links back to the canonical source.
EU-27 · 2025
19,955k
HIGHEST · 2025
Germany
6,136k
LOWEST · 2025
Bulgaria
10k
Map · 2025
9.6 6.1k
Ranking · 2025
Time series · top 12 countries + EU-27
- Germany 6.1k
- Spain 3.4k
- Italy 2.5k
- France 2.1k
- Austria 938
- Netherlands 622
- Belgium 622
- Ireland 587
- Poland 497
- Sweden 399
- Portugal 376
- Czechia 274
- European Union (27) 20.0k
Country × year heatmap · all values
2.5 6.1k
Member states · ranked by latest value
- #1 Germany DE · 2025 6,136k
- #2 Spain ES · 2025 3,435k
- #3 Italy IT · 2025 2,518k
- #4 France FR · 2025 2,116k
- #5 Austria AT · 2025 938k
- #6 Netherlands NL · 2025 622k
- #7 Belgium BE · 2025 622k
- #8 Ireland IE · 2025 587k
- #9 Poland PL · 2025 497k
- #10 Sweden SE · 2025 399k
- #11 Portugal PT · 2025 376k
- #12 Czechia CZ · 2025 274k
- #13 Denmark DK · 2020 200k
- #14 Finland FI · 2025 181k
- #15 Luxembourg LU · 2025 175k
- #16 Cyprus CY · 2025 138k
- #17 Greece EL · 2025 121k
- #18 Estonia EE · 2025 114k
- #19 Slovenia SI · 2025 111k
- #20 Latvia LV · 2025 77k
- #21 Malta MT · 2020 68k
- #22 Lithuania LT · 2025 49k
- #23 Hungary HU · 2025 44k
- #24 Romania RO · 2025 19k
- #25 Slovakia SK · 2025 18k
- #26 Croatia HR · 2025 13k
- #27 Bulgaria BG · 2025 10k
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Source:
Eurostat · lfsa_egan