Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2009, Portugal's employment decreased by 18.5% compared to 2008, reaching 25k.

Portugal accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 4,535k.

Portugal ranks 15th 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 15.1% (from 22k in 2004).

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