Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2005, Portugal's employment increased by 22.0% compared to 2004, reaching 27k.

Portugal accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 3,534k.

Portugal ranks 12th out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 65.2% (from 16k in 2000).

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