Portugal Employment Rate
Portugal employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 54.58%.
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Portugal · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
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External Sector5
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Interpretation
Portugal recorded 54.58% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.07 percentage points, from 54.64% to 54.58%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (54.05%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 51.96% in 2016 and the high was 55.19% in 2019.