Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2004, Portugal's employment decreased by 21.0% compared to 2003, reaching 22k.

Portugal accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 3,097k.

Portugal ranks 11th out of 18 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 45.3% (from 15k in 1999).

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