Employment — national citizens

In 2006, Portugal's employment increased by 0.4% compared to 2005, reaching 4,583k.

Portugal accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 173,476k.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 2.5% (from 4,701k in 2001).

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