Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2025, Portugal's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation decreased by 5.3% compared to 2024, reaching 16.2.

Portugal accounts for 56.3% of the EU-27 total of 28.8.

Portugal ranks 20th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 8.5% (from 17.7 in 2020).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_lm230, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.