Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2019, Portugal's employment increased by 4.7% compared to 2018, reaching 31k.

Portugal accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 6,761k.

Portugal ranks 16th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 36.0% (from 23k in 2014).

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