Population — national citizens

In 2021, Portugal's population decreased by 0.6% compared to 2020, reaching 9,798,503.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 2.1% (from 10,007,593 in 2016).

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