Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2005, Portugal's employment increased by 25.3% compared to 2004, reaching 160k.

Portugal accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 9,363k.

Portugal ranks 10th 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 66.4% (from 96k in 2000).

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