Employment — national citizens

In 2004, Portugal's employment decreased by 0.5% compared to 2003, reaching 4,623k.

Portugal accounts for 3.2% of the EU-27 total of 145,525k.

Portugal ranks 7th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.8% (from 4,585k in 1999).

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