Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2011, Portugal's employment decreased by 10.5% compared to 2010, reaching 24k.

Portugal accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 4,589k.

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 fallen by 13.5% (from 28k in 2006).

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