Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Estonia's employment decreased by 9.0% compared to 2008, reaching 478k.

Estonia accounts for 0.3% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

Estonia ranks 24th 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 1.1% (from 483k in 2004).

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