Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Cyprus's employment increased by 4.7% compared to 2006, reaching 314k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

Cyprus ranks 25th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 14.4% (from 275k in 2002).

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