Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Portugal's employment increased by 0.0% compared to 2007, reaching 4,565k.

Portugal accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

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 1.8% (from 4,648k in 2003).

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