Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2015, Portugal's employment increased by 8.3% compared to 2014, reaching 25k.

Portugal accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 5,479k.

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 7.1% (from 27k in 2010).

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