Population — national citizens

In 2024, Portugal's population decreased by 1.4% compared to 2023, reaching 9,594,328.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

Portugal ranks 12th 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 3.0% (from 9,891,633 in 2019).

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