Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Portugal's employment increased by 1.6% compared to 2015, reaching 4,272k.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

Portugal ranks 11th 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 0.6% (from 4,297k in 2011).

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