Employment — national citizens

In 2025, Portugal's employment increased by 1.5% compared to 2024, reaching 4,655k.

Portugal accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 181,552k.

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 5.8% (from 4,400k in 2020).

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