Employment — national citizens

In 2003, Germany's employment decreased by 0.8% compared to 2002, reaching 32,556k.

Germany accounts for 26.5% of the EU-27 total of 122,669k.

Germany ranks 1st out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.5% (from 32,379k in 1998).

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