Portugal was the European Union Member State where the most immigrants entered between 2012 and 2023, according to data released by Pordadespite being far from being the country with the highest percentage of foreign population.
This information is contained in an interactive platform, launched this Monday, February 23, by Pordata, which, based on statistical data from Eurostat, provides a comparative portrait of the 27 Member States of the European Union based on four themes: population, economy, cost of living and income, energy and environment.
With regard to the population, Pordata indicates that Portugal was the European Union (EU) country where the most immigrants entered between 2012 and 2023“with an average annual growth rate of 34.3% compared to 8.8%” at the European average level.
The country with the second highest rate is Estonia (30.3%), followed by Lithuania (30.2%).
However, despite this increase in the entry of immigrants, Portugal is far from being the country with the highest percentage of resident population: with 9.6%, Portugal is in 12th place, a long way from Luxembourg, where around 47.3% of residents are foreigners – the highest rate at EU level.
According to these data, Portugal is the second oldest country in the EUonly surpassed by Italy: there are 53 young people for every 100 elderly people. In Ireland, the EU country with the youngest population, the proportion is significantly higher: there are 122 young people for every 100 elderly people.
In Portugal, according to data from Pordata, only a quarter of households (25.6%) have children, “6.8 percentage points less than in 2011”, with Slovakia being the country with the most families with children (35.6%).
Portugal is also the EU country where the active population is least educated. According to Pordata, four out of every 10 people do not have secondary education in Portugal, well above countries like Poland or Lithuania, where only one person in every 10 did not complete this level of education.
However, in the population between 25 and 34 years old, “Portugal already shows an education level in line with the global EU average (43.2% with higher education compared to 44.1% in the EU)”, says Pordata.
There are also more and more people living alone in the EU. According to Pordata, between 2011 and 2023, “more than 25 million people started to live alone, an increase of 28%”.
“In Portugal, there were 366 thousand more people, an increase of almost 50%”, indicates Pordata.
The platform launched by Pordata aims to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Portugal’s accession to the then European Economic Community (EEC), in January 1986. Using data from Eurostat, this platform makes it possible to compare statistics from the 27 EU Member States and analyze Portugal’s position on different topics in relation to other European countries.
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