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Portugal is an EU member state with a population of 10.7M, a GDP of €307B (2025) and a per-capita output of €28.4k, a median age of 47.3 years. Member of the European Union since 1986.

402 Eurostat indicators across 15 topics, with full year-by-year history.

Population

10.7M

2025 · rank 10/27

GDP (current prices)

€307B

2025 · rank 14/27

GDP per capita

€28.4k

2025 · rank 19/27

Median age

47.3yrs

2025 · rank 3/27

Country at a glance

Portugal is a southern europe member of the European Union, with its capital in Lisbon. The country joined the European Communities in 1986 in the Iberian enlargement (alongside Portugal and Spain). Economically, Portugal is an Atlantic-Mediterranean economy with strong tourism, footwear, paper and cork exports, recovering from the 2011–2014 troika-era adjustment programme. The country has used the euro since 1999, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. Portuguese is the official language and the country is divided into 3 NUTS-1 statistical regions for the purposes of Eurostat reporting. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Portugal is currently 10th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record; 14th by GDP at current prices; with one of the oldest median ages in the bloc (rank 3/27).

Key insights

How Portugal stands out across the EU-27 on flagship indicators — auto-generated from the latest Eurostat snapshot.

  • 3rd-oldest median age in EU-27 (47.3 years)

Portugal vs EU-27

Flagship indicators alongside the EU-27 average and Portugal's rank across covered member states.

IndicatorPTEU-27 avgΔRankYear
Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components per capita - annual data€28,390€41,620-32%19/272025
Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components (output, expenditure and income) - annual data€306,765M€18,810,682M-98%14/272025
Unemployment by sex and age - annual data6.0%6.0%+0%14/272025
Employment rates by citizenship71.6%66.6%+8%9/272025
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex15.4%16.3%-6%15/272025
Life expectancy by age and sex82.581.5+1%9/272024
Population structure indicators at national level47.344.9+5%3/272025
Fertility indicators1.411.34+5%12/272024
Government deficit/surplus, debt and associated data89.7%81.7%+10%6/272025
Share of energy from renewable sources36.3%25.2%+44%7/272024
Population in private households by educational attainment level32.7%36.9%-11%21/272025
GERD by sector of performance1.7%2.2%-23%12/272024

Indicators by topic

Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Portugal, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.

Economy & national accounts

36 indicators

Public finance & taxation

13 indicators

Labour & employment

44 indicators

Demography & population

48 indicators

Income, poverty & living conditions

123 indicators

Migration & asylum

25 indicators

Education

3 indicators

Health

23 indicators

Justice & crime

7 indicators

Environment & climate

13 indicators

Energy

11 indicators

Digital society & ICT

26 indicators

Science, R&D, patents

8 indicators

Transport

3 indicators

Tourism

19 indicators

More data on Portugal

This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.

Sources & methodology

Data on this page comes from Eurostat (402 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.

Last refreshed: 2026-05-18 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API