Employment — national citizens

In 2019, Portugal's employment increased by 0.0% compared to 2018, reaching 4,504k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 179,061k.

Portugal ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 8.6% (from 4,146k in 2014).

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