Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2018, Portugal's employment increased by 11.7% compared to 2017, reaching 30k.

Portugal accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 6,512k.

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 grown by 34.5% (from 22k in 2013).

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