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Portugal: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

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Country: Portugal Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 Year: 2025

Country overview

Portugal

Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Latest value

4.90 Ratio

European ranking

10 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+0.4 puntos

Portugal is 0.4 points above the European average.

EU: 4.53

Affected population

10.7M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 4.86 Ratio Europe benchmark: 4.73 Ratio

Internal regions

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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Área Metropolitana de Lisboa

    +10.20

    5.40

  2. 2

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +2.00

    5.00

  3. 3

    Norte

    -4.10

    4.70

  4. 4

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    -4.10

    4.70

  5. 5

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    -6.10

    4.60

  6. 6

    Alentejo

    -6.10

    4.60

  7. 7

    Algarve

    -6.10

    4.60

  8. 8

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    -6.10

    4.60

  9. 9

    Centro (PT)

    -12.20

    4.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Portugal

In Portugal, S80/S20 ratio is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 4.86 versus 4.73 in 2025, a gap of 0.13 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.99 in 2020 to 4.86 in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 5.20 in 2024 to 4.86 in 2025, shows material improvement and provides a clearer recent signal.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, regional values for S80/S20 ratio are relatively close. Across 9 comparable regions, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa records the highest value (5.4) and Centro (PT) the lowest (4.3), a gap of 1.1 in the ratio.

Reading within the topic

In Portugal, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.