Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2005, Portugal's employment increased by 26.1% compared to 2004, reaching 133k.

Portugal accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 5,830k.

Portugal ranks 8th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 66.8% (from 80k in 2000).

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