Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Lithuania's employment decreased by 1.7% compared to 2007, reaching 1,389k.

Lithuania accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

Lithuania ranks 21st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 3.0% (from 1,431k in 2003).

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