Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2014, Portugal's employment increased by 3.6% compared to 2013, reaching 23k.

Portugal accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 5,242k.

Portugal ranks 16th 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 9.2% (from 25k in 2009).

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