Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2016, Portugal's employment increased by 2.5% compared to 2015, reaching 83k.

Portugal accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 7,426k.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 33.6% (from 125k in 2011).

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