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Government areas

Labour, Solidarity and Social Security

The studies

The data studies

The measures

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Long-term unemployment

2,2 % of people working or looking for workin 2025source · Eurostat

2024:2,4European Union:1,9

What this number is

What share of people aged 15 to 74 who work or are looking for work (the labour force) is out of work and has been actively seeking employment for at least a year?

Employment gap between men and women

5,4 percentage pointsin 2025source · Eurostat

2024:5,7European Union:9,6

What this number is

What is the difference between the employment rate of men aged 20 to 64 and that of women, counted as the difference between the two percentages (in percentage points)?

Young people not in employment, education or training

8,0 % of people aged 15 to 29in 2025source · Eurostat

2024:8,7European Union:11,0

What this number is

What share of young people aged 15 to 29, of both sexes, is not employed and is not in education or training?

People who work or are looking for work (activity rate)

2,6 difference over three years, in percentage pointsin 2025source · Eurostat

2024:3,2European Union:1,1within the Commission’s reference value (above −0,2 pp)

What this number is

How much has the share of people aged 15 to 64 who work or are looking for work (active people, employed or unemployed) changed over three years, counted as the difference between that year’s percentage and the one three years earlier (in percentage points)?

The reference value is the one of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure scoreboard, set in the regulation that created the Procedure and revised by the European Commission.

Unemployment rate

6,0 % of people working or looking for workin 2025source · Eurostat

2024:6,5European Union:6,0

What this number is

What share of people aged 15 to 74 who work or are looking for work (the labour force) is unemployed?

Unemployment rate

6,0 % of people working or looking for workin 2025source · Eurostat

2024:6,5European Union:6,0within the Commission’s reference value (below 10 %)

What this number is

What share of people aged 15 to 74 who work or are looking for work (the labour force) is unemployed?

Employment rate

79,6 % of people aged 20 to 64in 2025source · Eurostat

2024:78,5European Union:76,1

What this number is

What share of people aged 20 to 64 is employed?

relações laborais e condições de trabalho

Unadjusted gender pay gap

7 % of men’s hourly earnings (provisional data)in 2024source · Eurostat

2023:8,6 (provisional data)

What this number is

How much less do women earn than men per hour of work, before deductions, as a percentage of men’s earnings, in enterprises with 10 or more employees (the unadjusted gender pay gap)?

Average monthly earnings

1 576,0 euros per monthin 2024source · INE

What this number is

How much do full-time employees on full pay earn per month, on average and before deductions (average monthly earnings)?

Monthly minimum wage (mainland Portugal)

920,00 euros per monthin 2026source · Diário da República

What this number is

What is the lowest monthly pay the law guarantees to employees on the mainland, without the increase that Azores law adds to it (the guaranteed minimum monthly wage)?

segurança social

combate à pobreza e de promoção da inclusão social

Income of the richest fifth compared with the poorest fifth

4,86 timesin 2025source · Eurostat

2024:5,2European Union:4,62

What this number is

How many times greater is the total income of the fifth of the population with the highest income than that of the fifth with the lowest?

At risk of poverty or social exclusion

18,6 % of the populationin 2025source · Eurostat

2024:19,7European Union:20,9

What this number is

What share of the population is in at least one of three situations: income below 60 % of the income that leaves half of the country’s population above it and half below, the median (at risk of poverty); at least seven out of thirteen deprivations because of a lack of resources (severe material and social deprivation); or living in a household where almost nobody works (very low work intensity), counting each person only once?

apoio à família, crianças

Children under three in formal childcare

57,9 % of children under threein 2025source · Eurostat

2024:59,4European Union:40,5

What this number is

What share of children under three are cared for outside the family, in a programme planned by public or recognised private bodies (formal childcare)?

Labour, Solidarity and Social SecurityDecreto-Lei n.º 87-A/2025 · Artigo 24.º, n.º 1