Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2004, Portugal's employment increased by 11.5% compared to 2003, reaching 106k.

Portugal accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 4,520k.

Portugal ranks 7th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 148.4% (from 43k in 1999).

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