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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2024
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	199 314	229 032	254 850^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	1.8	-8.3	6.8^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	19 228.7	22 240.0	24 812.9^b
Economy: Agriculture^f,g (% of Gross Value Added)	2.4	2.5	2.1^b
Economy: Industry^g,h (% of Gross Value Added)	22.3	22.2	21.5^b
Economy: Services and other activity^g,i (% of GVA)	75.2	75.3	76.4^b
Employment in agriculture^j (% of employed)	7.5	5.4	5^b
Employment in industry^j (% of employed)	24.3	24.8	24^b
Employment in services^j (% employed)	68.1	69.9	71^b
Unemployment (% of labour force)	12.4	6.8	6.5^j
Labour force participation rate (female/male pop. %)	53.7 / 64.1	53.6 / 63.0	54.9 / 63.5^j
CPI: Consumer Price Index^k,l (2010=100)	107	111	126^e
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	108	108	110^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	55 045	61 400	83 909^e
International trade: imports (million current US$)	66 909	77 834	113 486^e
International trade: balance (million current US$)	- 11 864	- 16 434	- 29 577^e
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	471	- 2 292	3 974^e

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Population growth rate (average annual %)	-0.2	0.2	-0.1^a
Urban population (% of total population)	63.5	65.8^d	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	0.5^m	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	1.3	1.4	1.5^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	84.3 / 78.2	84.2 / 78.4	85.3 / 79.7^a
Population age distributionⁿ (0-14/60+ years old, %)	14.3 / 26.9	13.3 / 29.6	12.8 / 31.5^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	864.8 / 8.3	1 002.0 / 9.8	... / ...
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	1.4	2.8	60.2^e
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	3.6	3	3^a
Health: Current expenditure (% of GDP)	9.3	10.5	10.6^b
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	4.8	5.6	5.8^o
Education: Government expenditure (% of GDP)	4.9	4.6^d	...
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio^j (f/m per 100 pop.)	105.0 / 108.9	104.7 / 106.5	104.4 / 105.4^o
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio ^j (f/m per 100 pop.)	115.0 / 117.6	111.9 / 115.3	111.5 / 114.5^o
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio^j (f/m per 100 pop.)	117.8 / 117.0	124.7 / 121.1	125.7 / 121.2^o
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	1	0.8	0.8^o
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	31.3	40^p	36.5^p

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Individuals using the Internet^q (per 100 inhabitants)	68.6	78.3	84.5^b
Research & Development expenditure (% of GDP)	1.2	1.6	1.7^r,b
Threatened species (number)	256	465	526^e
Forested area (% of land area)	36.2	36.2	36.2^o
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	47.0 / 4.5	37.1 / 3.6	34.7 / 3.4^o
Energy production, primary^s (Petajoules)	222	254	259^o
Energy supply per capita^s (Gigajoules)	89	82	82^o
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders^t,u (000)	11 723	4 208	16 308^b
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	77	77.3	77.3^e
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	97.1 / 90.3	97.1 / 90.9	97.1 / 91.2^b
Pop. using safely managed sanitation (urban/rural, %)	87.0 / 74.9	95.5 / 84.5	95.9 / 86.3^b
Net Official Development Assist. disbursed (% of GNI)	0.27	-0.2	0.52^b

Footnotes

a		Projected estimate (medium fertility variant).
b		2022
c		Refers to Grande Lisboa, the Peninsula of Setúbal, and the municipality Azambuja.
d		2019
e		2023
f		Excludes irrigation canals and landscaping care.
g		Data classified according to ISIC Rev. 4.
h		Excludes publishing activities. Includes irrigation canals.
i		Includes publishing activities and landscape care. Excludes repair of personal and household goods.
j		Estimate.
k		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division from national indices.
l		Excluding rent.
m		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
n		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
o		2021
p		Data are as at 1 January of reporting year.
q		Population aged 16 to 74 years.
r		Provisional data.
s		Including the Azores and Madeira Islands.
t		Include hotels, apartment hotels, “pousadas”, tourist apartments, tourist villages, camping sites, recreation centres, tourism in rural areas and local accommodation.
u		Non-resident tourists staying in all types of accommodation establishments.