Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2009, Portugal's employment decreased by 7.8% compared to 2008, reaching 203k.

Portugal accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 11,777k.

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 59.4% (from 128k in 2004).

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