Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Portugal's employment decreased by 1.3% compared to 2009, reaching 4,383k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

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 3.9% (from 4,563k in 2005).

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