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This article presents the most recent EU annual statistics on employment based on the EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS). It shows the level of employment by sex, age and educational attainment level for the EU as a whole as well as for each EU Member States, for 3 EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) and one candidate country (Serbia).

The article also highlights the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market and provides an overview of the latest changes in terms of remote work.

Please note that numbers and rates shown in the tools and mentioned in the text of this article may differ in some cases, due to continuous revision of the source data: the tools refer to the most recent data (as shown in the Eurostat database under Employment and unemployment (Labour Force Survey)) while the text refers to data from April 2022.

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Employment in 2021 compared with the EU target

The European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council launched the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan in 2017. It expresses principles and rights for fair and well-functioning labour markets and welfare systems in Europe. Reaching a 78 % employment rate in the EU is one of the three targets set for 2030. In 2021, the share of employed people in the total population was 73.1 % or, around 189 700,000 people. Among EU Member States (see Map 1), the employment rate was higher than 78 % in 8 countries, between 74 % and 78 % in 11 countries and below 74 % in the remaining 8 countries.