Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2017, Portugal's employment increased by 2.3% compared to 2016, reaching 109k.

Portugal accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 14,089k.

Portugal ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 7.7% (from 118k in 2012).

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