Portugal – PT

EU regions: Portugal

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	2.067
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	0.573
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	16.1
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	13.2
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	5.6
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2025q1	13.1
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2025q1	39
percentage of workers usually working from home	2024	8.7
percentage of part time workers	2025q1	7.07
percentage of part time workers, men	2025q1	4.64
percentage of part time workers, women	2025q1	9.54
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2025q1	47.6
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2025	56.47
monthly minimum wage in €	2025q1	1015
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2025q1	1170
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2024	19 537
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2023	8.6
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2024	66.7
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2023	91.16
gender gap in employment rate	2024	93.49
gender gap in unemployment rate	2025q1	110.94
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024	35.1
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2025q1	18.6
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2025q1	20.1
NEET	2024	7.8
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	81
HICP inflation	June 2025	2.1
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2024	2.1
Employment
employment rate	2024	72.8
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	19.8
job vacancies rate	2025q1	1.3

More on wikipedia wikidata Q45 on OpenStreetMap Portugal slovensky: PT

Subregions: Continental Portugal, Azores (NUTS 1), Madeira (NUTS 1)

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024	6.6
youth unemployment rate	2025q1	21.2
unemployment rate of low educated people	2025q1	7.4
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024	2.4
share of long term unemployed	2024	36.9

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Portugal

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 158.7 E: 98.6; U: 23.6; I: 36.5	P: 571.7 E: 346.8; U: 49.1; I: 175.8	P: 387.1 E: 278.8; U: 33.0; I: 75.3
Y30-39	P: 292.9 E: 227.3; U: 23.4; I: 42.2	P: 446.4 E: 393.1; U: 26.3; I: 27.0	P: 468.9 E: 434.1; U: 17.7; I: 17.1
Y40-49	P: 554.1 E: 459.1; U: 28.1; I: 66.9	P: 487.5 E: 435.9; U: 21.6; I: 30.0	P: 508.2 E: 476.8; U: 14.8; I: 16.6
Y50-59	P: 868.2 E: 643.4; U: 36.0; I: 188.8	P: 338.5 E: 284.6; U: 16.0; I: 37.9	P: 323.0 E: 296.6; U: 8.0; I: 18.4
Y60-69	P: 988.4 E: 328.4; U: 23.4; I: 636.6	P: 202.8 E: 99.9; U: 6.2; I: 96.7	P: 219.8 E: 135.7; U: 3.7; I: 80.4

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	10 639 726
population density	2023	116.3
old-age dependency ratio	2024	38.2
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2025q1	5.8
aggregate replacement ratio	2024	0.61
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2024	0.57
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2023	34
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2023	17.2

Employment by sectors, Portugal

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	145.9	3%	B-E	905.7	18%
F	359.5	7%	G-I	1307.2	26%
J	206	4%	K	109.8	2%
L	54.7	1%	M_N	447.3	9%
O-Q	1261.5	25%	R-U	314.6	6%
TOTAL	5112.3	100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

Portugal (Portuguese: [puɾtuˈɣal]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa [ʁɛˈpuβlikɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ]), is a country located mostly on the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe, being bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain. Its territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.

Portugal is the oldest nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. The pre-Celtic people,

Celts and Romans were followed by the invasions of the Suebi and Visigoths Germanic peoples. After the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, most of its territory was part of Al-Andalus. Portugal as a country was established during the early Christian Reconquista. Founded in 868, the County of Portugal gained prominence after the Battle of São Mamede (1128). The Kingdom of Portugal was later proclaimed following the Battle of Ourique (1139), and independence from León was recognised by the Treaty of Zamora (1143).

In the 15^th and 16^th centuries, Portugal established the first global empire, becoming one of the world's major economic, political and military powers. During this period, today referred to as the Age of Discovery, Portuguese explorers pioneered maritime exploration, notably under royal patronage of Prince Henry the Navigator and King John II, with such notable voyages as Bartolomeu Dias' sailing beyond the Cape of Good Hope (1488), Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India (1497–98) and the European discovery of what would become Brazil (1500).

Other: Portugal, Poland

Neighbours: Spain

Subregions: Continental Portugal, Azores (NUTS 1), Madeira (NUTS 1)

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Portugal – PT, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PPT, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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