Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2012, Portugal's employment decreased by 20.9% compared to 2011, reaching 118k.

Portugal accounts for 1.0% of the EU-27 total of 11,698k.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 38.7% (from 192k in 2007).

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