Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2022, Portugal's employment increased by 11.6% compared to 2021, reaching 24k.

Portugal accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 6,788k.

Portugal ranks 14th out of 22 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 9.4% (from 27k in 2017).

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