Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2007, Portugal's employment increased by 14.7% compared to 2006, reaching 192k.

Portugal accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 11,090k.

Portugal ranks 10th 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 61.1% (from 119k in 2002).

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