About Portugal Unemployment Rate
In Portugal, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Portugal Unemployment Rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Portugal Unemployment Rate is 3.70%.
The highest figure Portugal Unemployment Rate has ever reached is 18.50%.
Last quarter Portugal Unemployment Rate was 6.50%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 6.60%.