Employment — national citizens

In 2011, Malta's employment increased by 3.2% compared to 2010, reaching 160k.

Malta accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 171,906k.

Malta ranks 26th 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 9.6% (from 146k in 2006).

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