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Portugal: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Portugal Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Portugal

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

18.60 Percent of people

European ranking

18 / 30

Compared with Europe

-1.4 puntos

Portugal is 1.4 points below the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 2.00 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 18.60 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +16.10

    21.60

  2. 2

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +10.20

    20.50

  3. 3

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +9.70

    20.40

  4. 4

    Centro (PT)

    +7.00

    19.90

  5. 5

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +5.90

    19.70

  6. 6

    Alentejo

    +1.60

    18.90

  7. 7

    Norte

    +0.50

    18.70

  8. 8

    Algarve

    -8.10

    17.10

  9. 9

    Área Metropolitana de Lisboa

    -14.00

    16.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. 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 or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 18.6% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 1.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 20.00% in 2020 to 18.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 19.70% in 2024 to 18.60% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, regional values for Poverty or exclusion are relatively close. Across 9 comparable regions, Região Autónoma dos Açores records the highest value (21.6%) and Área Metropolitana de Lisboa the lowest (16%), a gap of 5.6 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.