Employment — national citizens

In 2017, Germany's employment increased by 0.1% compared to 2016, reaching 35,854k.

Germany accounts for 20.3% of the EU-27 total of 176,807k.

Germany ranks 1st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.3% (from 35,056k in 2012).

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