Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2013, Portugal's employment decreased by 9.5% compared to 2012, reaching 22k.

Portugal accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 4,952k.

Portugal ranks 16th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 28.6% (from 31k in 2008).

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