Employment — national citizens

In 2005, Portugal's employment decreased by 1.3% compared to 2004, reaching 4,563k.

Portugal accounts for 2.7% of the EU-27 total of 167,216k.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.4% (from 4,628k in 2000).

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