Population — national citizens

In 2018, Portugal's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2017, reaching 9,947,827.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 411,593,089.

Portugal ranks 10th 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 1.6% (from 10,109,981 in 2013).

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