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Portugal

10,804,871

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+110.19K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+5.0%from 10.29M
Life expectancy82.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.41births per woman · 2024
Urban population61.5%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Portugal is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1412.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6462.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+24.9%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate7.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate11.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-3.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+16.47Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Portugal look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.77M in 2050—6.3% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202410.43M
  2. 20509.77M
  3. 21008.75M
Median age in 205048.3years
Births in 205082.57Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050134.74Kduring the year
Life expectancy86.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19608.86M
  2. 19708.68M
  3. 19809.77M
  4. 19909.98M
  5. 200010.29M
  6. 201010.57M
  7. 202010.3M
  8. 202510.8M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/12/2026

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