Employment — national citizens

In 2024, Portugal's employment increased by 0.7% compared to 2023, reaching 4,584k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 181,350k.

Portugal ranks 10th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.8% (from 4,504k in 2019).

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