Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2008, Cyprus's employment increased by 9.6% compared to 2007, reaching 35k.

Cyprus accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 7,477k.

Cyprus ranks 15th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 72.2% (from 21k in 2003).

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