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Sever do Vouga

The council debt of Sever do Vouga is within the legal limit (debt index of 42,4 %source · calculated) and purchasing power per person is below the country average (index of 81,14source · INE, with the country average as the base). Average monthly earnings are 1 382,9 euros per monthsource · INE, below Portugal, where they are 1 576,0 euros per monthsource · INE.

Themes

Economy and public finances

Non-financial enterprises

1 615 enterprises · 2024source · INE

What this number is

Counts the non-financial enterprises attributed to the municipality (integrated business accounts system).

Total municipal debt

3 889 692 euros · 2024source · Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais (DGAL)

What this number is

The council’s debt that counts towards the legal limit at year end (DGAL’s “dívida total”, without non-budget debts, the exceptions in the law and the contribution to the municipal support fund, the “Fundo de Apoio Municipal”).

Average payment time

62 days · December 2025source · Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais (DGAL)

Sever do Vouga (62) ranks 279th of the 299 municipalities with a value for the average time to pay suppliers, from the lowest to the highest.

No comparison with Portugal for the same period.

What this number is

The average number of days the council takes to pay its suppliers (DGAL’s “prazo médio de pagamento”, from its annual list).

Purchasing power per inhabitant

81,14 index (Portugal = 100) · 2023source · INE

Sever do Vouga (81,14) ranks 143rd of the 308 municipalities with a value for purchasing power per inhabitant, from the highest to the lowest.

It is below Portugal’s average (100).

What this number is

Index of purchasing power per person, where Portugal is one hundred: above one hundred, purchasing power per person in the municipality is higher than the country average; published for every municipality.

Debt index

42,4 % of the average revenue of the previous three years · 2024source · calculated

within the legal limit, which is 150 %

Sever do Vouga (42,4) ranks 211th of the 307 municipalities with a value for the debt index, from the lowest to the highest.

No comparison with Portugal for the same period.

What this number is

Debt as a percentage of the average net current revenue that the municipality collected in the previous three years; the law allows one and a half times that average.

Labour

Average monthly earnings

1 382,9 euros per month · 2024source · INE

Sever do Vouga (1 382,9) ranks 77th of the 308 municipalities with a value for average monthly earnings, from the highest to the lowest.

It is below Portugal, where the average is 1 576,0 euros per month.

What this number is

What full-time employees on full pay earn per month, on average, before deductions, from the staff records of the labour ministry’s strategy and planning office.

Population

Resident population

11 817 people · 2025source · INE

What this number is

Estimates how many people have their home in the municipality (resident population), from the statistics institute’s annual estimate.

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