Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2010, Portugal's employment increased by 6.0% compared to 2009, reaching 27k.

Portugal accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 4,485k.

Portugal ranks 15th out of 22 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.0% (from 27k in 2005).

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