Population — national citizens

In 2016, Portugal's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2015, reaching 10,007,593.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.2% (from 10,127,459 in 2011).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.