Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2008, Portugal's employment increased by 17.2% compared to 2007, reaching 190k.

Portugal accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 7,477k.

Portugal ranks 7th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 99.9% (from 95k in 2003).

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