Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2009, Portugal's employment decreased by 6.0% compared to 2008, reaching 178k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 7,242k.

Portugal ranks 7th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 68.5% (from 106k in 2004).

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