Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2022, Portugal's employment increased by 88.3% compared to 2021, reaching 139k.

Portugal accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 16,782k.

Portugal ranks 14th 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 27.5% (from 109k in 2017).

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