Employment — national citizens

In 2020, Portugal's employment decreased by 2.3% compared to 2019, reaching 4,400k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 176,467k.

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 4.6% (from 4,206k in 2015).

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