Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2007, Portugal's employment increased by 15.6% compared to 2006, reaching 162k.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 6,842k.

Portugal ranks 7th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 51.0% (from 107k in 2002).

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