Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2016, Portugal's employment increased by 0.5% compared to 2015, reaching 106k.

Portugal accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 13,375k.

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 28.7% (from 149k in 2011).

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