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Portugal population

Portugal population now

10,391,257

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 10.2–10.5 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 10,430,738

Year
2026
projection · medium
Population, mid-2026
10.3954 million
95% range, 31 Dec: 10.2–10.5 million
Median age
48.2
Aged 65+
25.4%
2023 | 2024

male female projection · one cell = 2,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

PRT · 1950–2100 · in brief

Portugal in numbers

The UN counts 10,430,738 people in Portugal in mid-2023, which makes it the 91st-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.13% of the world's people. That is 1.2 times its 1950 population of 8.4 million.

Its population peaked in 2010 at 10.6 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 8.8 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 5.9 million to 12.5 million.

2009 was the last year births kept up with deaths. Every year since has had more deaths than births, as does every projected year to 2100. The population still grew until 2010, because more people arrived than left.

The median age was 26.0 in 1950 and 47.2 in 2023; the projection has 48.3 in 2100. 24.1% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 31.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2008 at 7.0 million; in 2023 it was 6.6 million.

Its place in the world by population: 91st in 2023, 98th in 2050, 108th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Cuba in 2042 and Czechia in 2065. It is overtaken by Papua New Guinea in 2024, Tajikistan in 2024 and Azerbaijan in 2026.

Population, mid-2023
10,430,738
Rank by population, 2023
91 of 236
Share of the world, 2023
0.13%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023
+0.13% · +13,666 people
People per km² of land, 2023
114
Land area, 2023
91,606 km²
Births, 2023
86,646
Deaths, 2023
115,917
Net migration, 2023
+29,102
Children per woman, 2023
1.51
Median age, 2023
47.2 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023
82.4 years
In a city, 2025
36 of every 100
Population, mid-1950
8,418,876
Projected, mid-2050
9,770,270
Projected, mid-2100
8,753,987

PRT · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

estimates | projections02.5 m5 m7.5 m10 m12.5 m15 m1950197520002025205020752100

estimate   projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range   95% range   medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Portugal, 1950–2100
Portugal: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
YearKindPopulation, 1 Jan95% rangeBirthsDeathsChildren per womanLife expectancy
1950estimate8,386,357205,622104,2103.1658.5
1951estimate8,451,396209,102105,9793.1858.8
1952estimate8,496,996211,935100,7483.2059.8
1953estimate8,549,851202,91397,2463.0461.1
1954estimate8,595,643198,53194,9752.9662.2
1955estimate8,638,277210,14799,3793.1361.4
1956estimate8,687,498204,402106,5073.0361.2
1957estimate8,720,627212,436101,6193.1461.4
1958estimate8,765,952213,66591,3973.1563.7
1959estimate8,819,603213,66796,9263.1462.9
1960estimate8,861,139214,81694,7763.1664.2
1961estimate8,885,297217,65598,7233.2162.8
1962estimate8,891,452218,14795,5673.2364.3
1963estimate8,900,100209,72296,4393.1364.9
1964estimate8,896,504212,87295,5773.2165.1
1965estimate8,895,023206,73493,6853.1666.1
1966estimate8,884,227204,28998,5493.1665.6
1967estimate8,860,732200,90094,4503.1666.5
1968estimate8,830,951195,83193,1323.1266.8
1969estimate8,788,458192,24099,5543.1166.4
1970estimate8,720,019183,19992,3363.0167.0
1971estimate8,619,028180,37696,2093.0066.8
1972estimate8,752,136175,36087,5032.8669.2
1973estimate8,879,058172,84092,2272.7768.6
1974estimate8,999,415171,75793,4852.6969.1
1975estimate9,118,937179,16994,6962.7568.8
1976estimate9,245,668187,21898,5352.8169.1
1977estimate9,374,844181,50392,6392.6870.3
1978estimate9,501,490168,01192,5352.4570.8
1979estimate9,611,300160,68189,1142.3171.6
1980estimate9,715,305157,95291,1982.2571.7
1981estimate9,811,944151,83292,6092.1371.9
1982estimate9,863,228149,71889,4892.0772.7
1983estimate9,908,449143,29393,1131.9672.7
1984estimate9,942,067140,35194,0261.9072.9
1985estimate9,971,724128,89294,2361.7373.2
1986estimate9,987,213124,56592,7931.6673.7
1987estimate9,998,974121,57892,3991.6274.1
1988estimate10,005,012120,80095,0561.6174.1
1989estimate10,004,167118,09193,0581.5774.7
1990estimate9,998,584116,71999,9841.5574.3
1991estimate9,980,464116,630101,2911.5674.2
1992estimate9,957,889114,94198,1891.5474.9
1993estimate9,962,790113,632103,0941.5174.8
1994estimate9,981,893109,10896,6811.4575.7
1995estimate10,015,080107,152100,7861.4175.5
1996estimate10,048,421109,936104,1171.4475.5
1997estimate10,086,877112,492102,0621.4775.9
1998estimate10,134,226113,191103,5281.4776.1
1999estimate10,184,825115,754105,2281.5076.3
2000estimate10,244,918118,781102,8011.5476.8
2001estimate10,321,491112,747102,6361.4677.2
2002estimate10,387,158113,502103,9081.4677.4
2003estimate10,438,930112,019106,1231.4477.6
2004estimate10,469,560109,26199,5381.4178.4
2005estimate10,493,203108,826104,7981.4178.3
2006estimate10,512,784105,20799,2771.3779.1
2007estimate10,535,456102,562100,8911.3579.3
2008estimate10,558,193103,785101,4911.3879.6
2009estimate10,569,96899,740101,6721.3579.8
2010estimate10,582,566100,745102,9251.3880.1
2011estimate10,574,75496,535100,4321.3480.6
2012estimate10,539,35189,706105,0311.2880.5
2013estimate10,486,94983,046103,9991.2180.9
2014estimate10,429,64682,184102,6351.2381.3
2015estimate10,382,75184,792106,5511.3081.3
2016estimate10,357,78386,453108,4941.3681.4
2017estimate10,334,96185,621107,8411.3881.7
2018estimate10,326,72786,023111,2631.4181.6
2019estimate10,323,97985,246109,8091.4282.0
2020estimate10,362,44783,378121,3091.4181.4
2021estimate10,378,59177,859122,7381.3381.4
2022estimate10,403,32084,319125,5121.4581.2
2023estimate10,430,82586,646115,9171.5182.4
2024estimate10,430,65186,151117,5171.5182.5
2025projection10,419,93410.4–10.5 million85,660118,3361.5282.7
2026projection10,403,73310.3–10.5 million85,260118,9731.5282.9
2027projection10,386,99210.2–10.5 million85,007119,6351.5383.1
2028projection10,368,96910.2–10.5 million84,758120,4161.5383.2
2029projection10,347,62810.1–10.6 million84,679121,2351.5383.4
2030projection10,327,30410.1–10.6 million84,783121,9071.5383.5
2031projection10,308,55010.0–10.6 million84,958122,7071.5483.7
2032projection10,288,31010.0–10.6 million85,265123,5111.5483.8
2033projection10,265,7829.9–10.6 million85,594124,3831.5484.0
2034projection10,243,5359.9–10.6 million85,881125,3211.5584.1
2035projection10,219,8099.8–10.7 million86,279126,1711.5584.2
2036projection10,196,6729.8–10.7 million86,580127,0111.5584.4
2037projection10,172,6449.7–10.7 million86,869127,8341.5584.5
2038projection10,148,9449.7–10.7 million87,042128,7661.5684.7
2039projection10,123,5689.6–10.7 million87,134129,6541.5684.8
2040projection10,096,3969.5–10.7 million87,037130,2581.5684.9
2041projection10,068,1159.5–10.7 million86,961130,9641.5685.0
2042projection10,041,9769.4–10.8 million86,651131,7531.5685.2
2043projection10,014,5929.3–10.8 million86,280132,1741.5685.3
2044projection9,984,4889.3–10.8 million85,897132,8141.5785.4
2045projection9,954,0809.2–10.8 million85,412133,0891.5785.6
2046projection9,922,6999.2–10.8 million84,844133,6181.5785.7
2047projection9,889,9819.1–10.8 million84,101134,0561.5785.8
2048projection9,856,8979.0–10.8 million83,670134,3591.5785.9
2049projection9,824,2428.9–10.8 million83,045134,6081.5786.0
2050projection9,788,0338.9–10.8 million82,568134,7351.5786.2
2051projection9,752,5088.8–10.8 million82,184134,8971.5886.3
2052projection9,717,1228.8–10.8 million81,857135,1811.5886.4
2053projection9,679,7918.7–10.8 million81,532135,2521.5886.5
2054projection9,641,3958.6–10.8 million81,338135,3621.5886.7
2055projection9,604,1718.6–10.8 million81,158135,2921.5886.8
2056projection9,565,2798.5–10.8 million81,063135,3181.5886.9
2057projection9,528,1028.4–10.8 million81,103135,2891.5887.0
2058projection9,491,3058.3–10.8 million81,152135,1981.5887.1
2059projection9,451,8978.3–10.8 million81,131134,8941.5887.2
2060projection9,414,5838.2–10.8 million81,195134,7461.5887.3
2061projection9,377,1868.1–10.8 million81,254134,3111.5887.5
2062projection9,341,6358.0–10.8 million81,371133,9361.5887.6
2063projection9,305,2868.0–10.8 million81,554133,3361.5987.7
2064projection9,269,3087.9–10.8 million81,720132,7701.5987.8
2065projection9,233,1437.8–10.9 million81,632131,9621.5987.9
2066projection9,199,7377.8–10.9 million81,730131,1551.5988.1
2067projection9,167,3387.7–10.9 million81,742130,2171.5988.2
2068projection9,135,9547.6–10.9 million81,879128,9891.5988.3
2069projection9,103,9777.6–10.9 million82,005127,8031.5988.4
2070projection9,074,4377.5–10.9 million82,081126,2521.5988.5
2071projection9,046,7827.4–11.0 million82,132124,7541.5988.6
2072projection9,020,5327.4–11.0 million82,205122,8571.5988.7
2073projection8,997,7207.3–11.1 million82,243120,9151.6088.9
2074projection8,974,0857.3–11.1 million82,189119,0541.6089.0
2075projection8,951,6967.2–11.1 million82,130116,9441.6089.1
2076projection8,932,5537.1–11.1 million81,972114,8201.6089.2
2077projection8,914,3907.1–11.2 million81,808112,7131.6089.3
2078projection8,899,7777.0–11.2 million81,663110,6591.6089.4
2079projection8,886,1247.0–11.3 million81,439108,7051.6089.5
2080projection8,873,8026.9–11.3 million81,116106,8931.6089.7
2081projection8,863,0456.8–11.4 million80,800105,2231.6089.8
2082projection8,852,9116.8–11.4 million80,575103,8111.6089.9
2083projection8,844,8266.7–11.5 million80,296102,4681.6090.0
2084projection8,838,6386.7–11.5 million79,985101,4241.6090.1
2085projection8,831,9896.7–11.6 million79,704100,4321.6090.2
2086projection8,826,7246.6–11.6 million79,52299,5321.6190.3
2087projection8,822,0886.6–11.7 million79,35198,9061.6190.4
2088projection8,815,9656.5–11.7 million79,08498,4481.6190.5
2089projection8,811,3586.5–11.8 million78,82398,1181.6190.6
2090projection8,806,7976.4–11.9 million78,58997,9101.6090.8
2091projection8,802,5286.4–11.9 million78,45597,8171.6090.9
2092projection8,798,5416.3–12.0 million78,33597,6911.6091.0
2093projection8,793,4366.3–12.1 million78,33097,6381.6191.1
2094projection8,788,6916.2–12.2 million78,23897,8281.6091.2
2095projection8,784,0456.2–12.3 million78,26897,7231.6191.3
2096projection8,776,5306.1–12.3 million78,28697,7621.6191.4
2097projection8,770,5426.0–12.4 million78,31097,7961.6191.5
2098projection8,765,2556.0–12.4 million78,37397,6861.6191.7
2099projection8,761,2695.9–12.4 million78,41297,7071.6191.8
2100projection8,756,1385.9–12.5 million78,38797,5601.6191.9
Show the numbers: Portugal, mid-2026, by single year of age
Portugal: population by single year of age, mid-2026
AgeMaleFemale
044,00241,710
144,34842,179
244,69542,586
344,34542,278
442,65640,714
542,91640,850
644,97842,678
745,45443,598
845,27343,662
945,61243,525
1045,42543,364
1144,26442,116
1243,56441,442
1345,37343,165
1448,92746,376
1551,17249,486
1651,10849,956
1751,95350,132
1853,16051,133
1953,86852,194
2056,46654,260
2157,64455,106
2257,88255,573
2358,56056,159
2458,08655,647
2559,46857,049
2660,23558,130
2758,05256,153
2856,48054,810
2955,87653,929
3055,24852,922
3154,41552,553
3254,82253,754
3355,59055,350
3456,17255,925
3556,58056,248
3656,02256,159
3755,99256,632
3856,37657,644
3956,79558,720
4058,12560,506
4161,03663,805
4263,68966,866
4365,56069,568
4467,12472,013
4568,86874,298
4670,32475,926
4771,17077,114
4874,99281,276
4978,48285,122
5079,03385,825
5177,95085,163
5275,69883,439
5374,57982,327
5474,16182,148
5572,66680,484
5670,74378,440
5769,62377,541
5868,91677,780
5968,76478,604
6069,08579,182
6169,07679,746
6267,84179,082
6366,45977,816
6466,17377,675
6566,18277,444
6664,47675,706
6762,62774,386
6862,14774,035
6960,56472,259
7059,14471,303
7157,84570,027
7255,46467,518
7354,03767,056
7453,95466,759
7553,04165,098
7650,80262,916
7748,80262,141
7845,01658,970
7940,81054,586
8039,07153,837
8136,25851,087
8232,16946,165
8328,33641,722
8425,21237,774
8522,89035,141
8620,40533,497
8717,91231,220
8815,26428,008
8913,15125,065
9011,22222,188
918,84618,612
926,83815,216
935,30012,585
944,04610,067
952,9157,780
961,9435,658
971,2814,042
988232,854
995161,928
100+7263,072

PRT · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Portugal, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

PRT · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Portugal

Portugal had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2008: 7,036,460 people aged 15–64, against 6,570,830 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64
20 children
38 aged 65+

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 16 years: 1992–2007.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

PRT · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Portugal, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Portugal gains 44,663 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 5,058 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 500 people a year
020406080+

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 69,606 (2021), and a loss of 191,862 (1970).

In 2024, 1,127,184 people living in Portugal had been born in another country, 11 of every 100 people there, against 4 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

PRT · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Portugal

Of every 100 babies born in Portugal in 2023, 2 had a mother under 20, 66 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 32 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 4 under 20 and 23 aged 35 or older.

1950
4 · 73 · 23
2023
2 · 66 · 32
2050 · projected
1 · 54 · 45

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023
86,646
Average age when women have a baby
31.7 years
30.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19
7
22 in 1950
Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100
Babies born in Portugal by the mother's age
Mother's age19501975200020232050 projected2100 projected
10–14391041372443
15–199,06414,9567,5591,778465394
20–2452,65655,32124,4248,7344,0453,735
25–2958,63251,72539,53219,05313,46213,090
30–3438,57929,44731,47228,98727,54726,414
35–3931,20518,48913,16621,03925,70124,656
40–4413,7147,9302,3926,52410,4599,277
45–491,6721,13595507885818
50–5461624000
All babies205,622179,169118,78186,64682,56878,387

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

PRT · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Portugal

In Portugal, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 69.5 (95% range 68.8–70.4), out of 81.2 in all. The years in less than full health come to 11.7, above the world's 9.5.

Women

70.5 in full health, 13.4 not: 83.9 years

Men

68.5 in full health, 9.8 not: 78.3 years

a year in full health   a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 70.5 healthy years of 83.9. Men: 68.5 of 78.3. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 70.1.

PRT · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Portugal

At the end of 2025, Portugal was hosting 78,944 people who had crossed a border into it, about 8 of every 1,000 people living there.

  1. hosted from abroad78,944
  2. Portugal nationals abroad485

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 2,000 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Portugal living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 1,755 people asked for asylum in Portugal for the first time; 164 people from Portugal asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

PRT · of every 100 people

How people live in Portugal

Of every 100 people in Portugal in 2025, 36 lived in a city, 35 in a town or suburb and 29 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 11.5 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

PRT · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Portugal went in school

Of every 100 adults in Portugal in 2020, 8 never went to school and 37 finished upper secondary or went further.

8 never went to school 25 some primary 13 finished primary 17 finished lower secondary 17 finished upper secondary 20 studied after school

Among women, 1 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 5.8 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 1.1 against 5.8.

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2070.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

PRT · cities · 2025

Cities in Portugal

Portugal had 9 cities in 2025, home to 3.8 million people. The largest, Lisbon, holds 18 of every 100 people in Portugal.

  1. Lisbon1,913,798
  2. Porto990,433
  3. Almada213,171
  4. Barreiro142,227
  5. Funchal133,455
  6. Braga105,073
  7. Setúbal97,435
  8. Amora97,426
  9. Póvoa de Varzim60,918

How to read this: one bar for each of the 9 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Portugal are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

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Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.