Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2012, Portugal's employment decreased by 25.4% compared to 2011, reaching 93k.

Portugal accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 6,979k.

Portugal ranks 12th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 42.3% (from 162k in 2007).

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