Employment — national citizens

In 2012, Cyprus's employment decreased by 3.6% compared to 2011, reaching 288k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 170,872k.

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 fallen by 8.4% (from 314k in 2007).

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