Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2016, Portugal's employment decreased by 6.1% compared to 2015, reaching 23k.

Portugal accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 5,949k.

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 2.5% (from 24k in 2011).

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