Population — national citizens

In 2023, Portugal's population decreased by 0.5% compared to 2022, reaching 9,731,570.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 2.2% (from 9,947,827 in 2018).

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