Employment — national citizens

In 2021, Portugal's employment increased by 2.8% compared to 2020, reaching 4,523k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 177,389k.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 5.9% (from 4,272k in 2016).

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