Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Spain's employment decreased by 1.8% compared to 2009, reaching 16,133k.

Spain accounts for 9.4% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

Spain ranks 4th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 4.9% (from 16,967k in 2005).

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