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Portugal: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Portugal Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Portugal

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

15.40 Percent of people

European ranking

17 / 30

Improved by 3 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+0.1 puntos

Portugal is 0.1 points above the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 1.66 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 15.40 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +16.20

    17.90

  2. 2

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +12.30

    17.30

  3. 3

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +11.70

    17.20

  4. 4

    Centro (PT)

    +10.40

    17.00

  5. 5

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +7.80

    16.60

  6. 6

    Alentejo

    +1.90

    15.70

  7. 7

    Norte

    +1.30

    15.60

  8. 8

    Algarve

    -1.90

    15.10

  9. 9

    Área Metropolitana de Lisboa

    -20.80

    12.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Portugal

In Portugal, Poverty risk is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 15.4% versus 16.2% in 2025, a gap of 0.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 16.20% in 2020 to 15.40% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 16.60% in 2024 to 15.40% in 2025, shows material improvement and provides a clearer recent signal.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, regional values for Poverty risk are relatively close. Across 9 comparable regions, Região Autónoma dos Açores records the highest value (17.9%) and Área Metropolitana de Lisboa the lowest (12.2%), a gap of 5.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Portugal, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.