Population — national citizens

In 2022, Portugal's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2021, reaching 9,777,770.

Portugal accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

Portugal ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 2.0% (from 9,974,398 in 2017).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.