Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Finland's employment increased by 1.6% compared to 2006, reaching 2,419k.

Finland accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

Finland ranks 17th 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 2.6% (from 2,358k in 2002).

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