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The most recent figures are for August 2026
In August 2026, fuel was 23,78 %source · INE more expensive than a year earlier. Prices as a whole rose 3,30 %source · INE.
Prices as a whole are measured on a basket of goods and services that represents what households buy.
On the harmonised measure that compares the countries of the Union, prices rose 3,6 %source · Eurostat in Portugal and 3,2 %source · Eurostat in the Union.
SourceINEAugust 2026EurostatAugust 2026
In Portugal, the share of people spending more than 40 % of their disposable income on housing is smaller than in the Union. Among people renting at market price, it is larger.
All people
Renting at market price
This total mixes very different situations, and the European Commission says it should be read together with the breakdown by tenure status.
House prices rose 17,6 %source · Eurostat in 2025, on the year’s average, against 5,5 %source · Eurostat in the Union. For the European Commission, a rise above 9 % in a year is a sign of a possible imbalance.
SourceEurostat2025INEAugust 2026
In 2025, the share of people aged 20 to 64 in work was larger in Portugal than in the Union, and unemployment was the same. But the share of people who had been looking for work for a year or more was larger.
In work, aged 20 to 64
0100
Unemployment
010
Long-term unemployment
010
Employment is counted among people aged 20 to 64; unemployment, among those working or looking for work, aged 15 to 74.
Average pay before deductions for employees went from 1 746 euros a monthsource · INE in the 2nd quarter of 2025 to 1 835 euros a month (provisional data)source · INE in the 2nd quarter of 2026.
SourceEurostat2025INE2nd quarter of 20252nd quarter of 2026
Public debt fell from 2024 to 2025 and is above the Union average. For the European Commission, debt above 60 % of GDP is a sign of a possible imbalance, and Portugal’s is above it.
Portugal
reference value 60 %
The Union
It is everything general government owes, as a percentage of GDP, the value of everything the country produces in a year.
INE’s notification of 23.09.2026 already revises the 2025 debt to 89,2 %source · INE of GDP.
SourceEurostat20242025INE2025
In 2025, the share of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion was smaller in Portugal than in the Union. But the 20 % with the highest income received 4,86source · Eurostat times what the 20 % with the lowest income received, against 4,62source · Eurostat in the Union.
At risk of poverty or social exclusion, % of people
025
How many times the income of the top 20 % is that of the bottom 20 %
Both figures, Portugal’s and the Union’s, count the people in at least one of three situations: income below 60 % of their country’s median income, the one in the middle; severe material and social deprivation; or living in a household with very low work intensity. Each person counts only once.
SourceEurostat2025
Direção-Geral do Território · Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal (CAOP) 2025 · CC BY 4.0
The State’s money is what arrived; the council’s is what is missing. The documents show three different totals for the cost of the event and no document that reconciles them, because the protocol that divides the money between the parties is not published.
Évora’s budget has drifted from the money that arrives, and the strain shows in unpaid invoices and the payment queue, not in the legal debt: 137source · Município de Évora days to pay a supplier, and 4 976 172,24 eurossource · Município de Évora overdue, with total debt still below the limit.
Évora’s portfolios sit with the president’s own list in the terms for which the council publishes the split, and the municipality’s accounts are not cut in a way that lets anyone say what each councillor spent: in the 2021–2025 term, 12source · Município de Évora and 10source · Município de Évora portfolio designations split between two people (a portfolio is an area of the council’s work that the president assigns by order to a member of the executive); the council installed in 2025 has 7source · Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Administração Interna (SGMAI) seats.
In 2025, Portugal was outside 4 of the European Commission’s 13 reference values and within 9. Outside: government debt, the international investment position, the three-year change in unit labour cost and the annual change in house prices.
Government debt
It is everything general government owes, as a percentage of GDP, the value of everything the country produces in a year.
Portugal is above the European Commission’s reference value, which is 60 %.
What the country owns abroad minus what it owes (net international investment position)
It is the difference between what residents of Portugal own in the rest of the world and what they owe to it, as a percentage of GDP, the value of everything the country produces in a year.
Negative means the country owes abroad more than it owns there.
Portugal is below the European Commission’s reference value, which is −35 %.
Labour cost per unit of output (unit labour cost)
It is how much the cost of labour per unit produced rose over three years: what is paid for labour divided by what it produces.
Portugal is above the European Commission’s reference value, which is 9 %.
House prices, annual change
In 2025 the prices of homes bought by households rose 17,6 %source · Eurostat on average.
Portugal is above the European Commission’s reference value, which is 9 %.
Portugal’s share of advanced economies’ exports (export market share)
It is how much Portugal’s share of the exports of advanced economies changed over three years: the part that Portugal’s exports of goods and services make up of the total exports of OECD countries and of EU countries outside the OECD. Positive means Portugal gained share.
Portugal is above the European Commission’s reference value, which is −3 %.
Debt of (non-financial) companies
It is what companies owe in loans and debt securities, excluding financial companies, as a percentage of GDP, the value of everything the country produces in a year.
Portugal is below the European Commission’s reference value, which is 85 %.
Household debt
It is what households and non-profit institutions serving them owe in loans and debt securities, as a percentage of GDP, the value of everything the country produces in a year.
Portugal is below the European Commission’s reference value, which is 55 %.
Credit flow to (non-financial) companies
It is how much credit companies took on in a year, minus what they repaid, excluding financial companies and foreign direct investment, as a percentage of the debt they already had at the end of the previous year.
Portugal is below the European Commission’s reference value, which is 13 %.
Credit flow to households
It is how much credit households and non-profit institutions serving them took on in a year, minus what they repaid, as a percentage of the debt they already had at the end of the previous year.
Portugal is below the European Commission’s reference value, which is 14 %.
Current account balance
It is the difference between what Portugal received from the rest of the world and what it paid to it, in goods, services and income, averaged over the last three years and as a percentage of GDP, the value of everything the country produces in a year. Positive means the country received more than it paid.
Portugal is between the European Commission’s reference values, which are −4 % and 6 %.
People who work or are looking for work (activity rate)
It is how much the share of the population aged 15 to 64 that is active, working or looking for work, changed over three years, in percentage points. Positive means the active share grew.
Portugal is above the European Commission’s reference value, which is −0,2 pp.
Prices compared with trading partners, including the exchange rate (real effective exchange rate)
It measures the price competitiveness of Portugal against its main competitors, allowing for inflation and exchange rates, over three years. A rise is an appreciation: prices in Portugal increase relative to those of its partners and price competitiveness falls.
Portugal is between the European Commission’s reference values, which are −3 % and 3 %.
Unemployment rate
It is the share of people aged 15 to 74 who are out of work, among those who work or are looking for work.
Portugal is below the European Commission’s reference value, which is 10 %.