Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2017, Portugal's employment decreased by 1.1% compared to 2016, reaching 82k.

Portugal accounts for 1.0% of the EU-27 total of 7,876k.

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 12.0% (from 93k in 2012).

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