Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Portugal's employment decreased by 0.4% compared to 2006, reaching 4,564k.

Portugal accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 3.3% (from 4,718k in 2002).

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