Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2007, Portugal's employment increased by 10.2% compared to 2006, reaching 30k.

Portugal accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 4,247k.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 150.4% (from 12k in 2002).

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