Employment — national citizens

In 2023, Italy's employment increased by 2.2% compared to 2022, reaching 20,518k.

Italy accounts for 11.4% of the EU-27 total of 180,763k.

Italy ranks 3rd out of 25 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 20,053k in 2018).

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