Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2012, Portugal's employment increased by 2.1% compared to 2011, reaching 24k.

Portugal accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 4,719k.

Portugal ranks 16th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 19.8% (from 30k in 2007).

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