Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2006, Portugal's employment increased by 4.8% compared to 2005, reaching 168k.

Portugal accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 10,171k.

Portugal ranks 11th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 75.9% (from 95k in 2001).

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