Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2021, Portugal's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 1.0% compared to 2020, reaching 4,597k.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 192,571k.

Portugal ranks 11th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.9% (from 4,380k in 2016).

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