Employment — national citizens

In 2006, Ireland's employment stood at 1,743k.

Ireland accounts for 1.0% of the EU-27 total of 173,476k.

Ireland ranks 19th 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 8.4% (from 1,608k in 2001).

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