Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2010, Portugal's employment decreased by 6.4% compared to 2009, reaching 167k.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 7,046k.

Portugal ranks 7th 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 25.0% (from 133k in 2005).

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