Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2006, Portugal's employment increased by 3.4% compared to 2005, reaching 28k.

Portugal accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 3,913k.

Portugal ranks 12th out of 22 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 108.3% (from 13k in 2001).

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