Portugal: 60% fewer births than in 1962
The peak was 218k births in 1962; in 2025, 87.8k. Fertility (1962–2024): 3.23 → 1.41 children per woman.
Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →
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- Portugal: people live longer than in the US
- Japan and Portugal: women born in 1980 had almost the same number of children, but 28% and 11% stayed childless
- Portugal: a hectare of farmland costs as much as 311 years of renting it
- Switzerland and Italy: 19% and 65% of adults read no book in a year; adult literacy scores 266 and 246
- Portugal: 1.9 times as many people aged 65+ as children under 15
- Portugal: more deaths than births for over 10 years in a row