Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2019, Portugal's employment increased by 29.8% compared to 2018, reaching 160k.

Portugal accounts for 1.0% of the EU-27 total of 15,586k.

Portugal ranks 12th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 48.9% (from 108k in 2014).

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