Employment — national citizens

In 2021, Spain's employment increased by 3.0% compared to 2020, reaching 17,154k.

Spain accounts for 9.7% of the EU-27 total of 177,389k.

Spain ranks 4th 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 5.8% (from 16,214k in 2016).

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