Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2017, Portugal's employment increased by 14.2% compared to 2016, reaching 27k.

Portugal accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 6,213k.

Portugal ranks 16th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 9.1% (from 24k in 2012).

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