PORTUGAL

Capital Lisbon
Area (km2) 91 982
Total population (thousands, 2017) 10 300
Population density (per km2) 112
National currency Euro (EUR)
National statistical office www.ine.pt
Statistics Portugal
Women in the labour force, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 49%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2014 18%
   hourly wage, 2017 16%
Women in part-time employment, 2017
   percentage of employed women 13%
Female tertiary students, 2016
   percentage of total for both sexes 53%
Female victims of homicide, 2005
   percentage of total for both sexes 34%
Women researchers, 2016
   percentage of total for both sexes 43%
Life expectancy at birth, 2017
   females, years 84.6
   males, years 78.4
Life expectancy at 65, 2017
   females, years 22.1
   males, years 18.3
Total fertility rate, 2017
   average number of children per woman 1.4
Adolescent fertility rate, 2017
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 7.8
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2017
   age in years 29.6
 
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
-2.9
1.4
1.4
1.6
3.3
2.3
Unemployment rate
 (%)
16.4
14.1
12.6
11.2
9.0
7.0
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
38.1
34.8
32.0
28.0
23.9
..
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2018 354 218
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2018 34 444
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2018 43.5
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2018 43.4
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2018 28 168
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   EUR per USD, US=1, 2018 0.576
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 35
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 18
Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2017 2 546
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2017 3 065
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 4 261
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 58
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2017 4 391
      million tonne-kilometres, 2017 2 751
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres ..
      million tonne-kilometres, 2017 34 073