Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2006, Portugal's employment increased by 5.0% compared to 2005, reaching 140k.

Portugal accounts for 2.2% of the EU-27 total of 6,258k.

Portugal ranks 8th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 70.6% (from 82k in 2001).

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