1. MigrationPortugal

   Portugal: in 2014–2023 497k more people arrived than left — Eurostat expected the opposite in 2013

   ActualEurostat projection 2013

   Eurostat's 2013 projection assumed that over these years 81.4k more would leave than arrive; the gap with the outcome is 578k people. The outcome: Eurostat data on arrivals and departures.

   Source: Eurostat: EUROPOP projections (2013 and 2015: Internet Archive copies of Eurostat files) and statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• 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

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