Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2014, Portugal's employment decreased by 7.8% compared to 2013, reaching 85k.

Portugal accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 6,910k.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 52.4% (from 178k in 2009).

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