Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2004, Portugal's employment increased by 4.2% compared to 2003, reaching 128k.

Portugal accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 7,617k.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 121.9% (from 58k in 1999).

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