Employment — national citizens

In 2022, Portugal's employment increased by 1.4% compared to 2021, reaching 4,589k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 180,106k.

Portugal ranks 10th 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 3.9% (from 4,416k in 2017).

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