Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2008, Portugal's employment increased by 14.7% compared to 2007, reaching 221k.

Portugal accounts for 1.8% of the EU-27 total of 12,011k.

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 80.0% (from 123k in 2003).

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