Employment — national citizens

In 2018, Portugal's employment increased by 2.0% compared to 2017, reaching 4,504k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 177,872k.

Portugal ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 11.5% (from 4,038k in 2013).

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