Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2019, Portugal's employment increased by 37.7% compared to 2018, reaching 129k.

Portugal accounts for 1.5% of the EU-27 total of 8,824k.

Portugal ranks 10th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 52.4% (from 85k in 2014).

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