Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2021, Portugal's employment decreased by 57.8% compared to 2020, reaching 52k.

Portugal accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 8,798k.

Portugal ranks 16th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 37.3% (from 83k in 2016).

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