Continental Portugal – PT1

EU regions: Portugal > Continental Portugal

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	13.5
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2023	7.44
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	5.02
percentage of part time workers, women	2023	9.91
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2023	94.13
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	111.29
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	30.9
NEET	2023	7.8
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	79
Employment
employment rate	2023	72.6

More on wikipedia wikidata Q2915956 on OpenStreetMap Continental Portugal slovensky: PT1

Subregions: Norte Region, Algarve, Centro region, Lisbon Region, Alentejo region

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023	6.7
youth unemployment rate	2023	20.6
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2023	2.4
share of long term unemployed	2023	37.2

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	10 022 426
population density	2022	112.9
old-age dependency ratio	2023	38.3

Employment by sectors, Continental Portugal

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	137.7	3 %	B-E	891.3	19 %
F	334	7 %	G-I	1227.2	25 %
J	187	4 %	K	106.5	2 %
L	52.6	1 %	M_N	426.3	9 %
O-Q	1162.2	24 %	R-U	290.7	6 %
TOTAL	4815.5	100 %

Data for the period year 2023. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

Portugal (Portuguese: [puɾtuˈɣal]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa [ʁɛˈpuβlikɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ]), is a country located mostly on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe, being bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain. Its territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.

Portugal is the oldest nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. The pre-Celtic people, Celts, Carthaginians and Romans were followed by the invasions of the Visigoths and Suebi Germanic peoples. Portugal as a country was established during the Christian Reconquista against the Moors who had invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 711 AD. Founded in 868, the County of Portugal gained prominence after the Battle of São Mamede in 1128. The Kingdom of Portugal was later proclaimed following the Battle of Ourique in 1139, and independence from León was recognised by the Treaty of Zamora in 1143.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal established the first global empire, becoming one of the world's major economic, political and military powers. During this period, today referred to as the Age of Discovery, Portuguese explorers pioneered maritime exploration, notably under royal patronage of Prince Henry the Navigator and King John II, with such notable voyages as Bartolomeu Dias' sailing beyond the Cape of Good Hope (1488), Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India (1497–98) and the European discovery of Brazil (1500). During this time Portugal monopolized the spice trade, divided the world into hemispheres of dominion with Castille, and the empire expanded with military campaigns in Asia. However, events such as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the country's occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, the independence of Brazil (1822), and a late industrialization compared to other European powers, erased to a great extent Portugal's prior opulence.

After the 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy, the democratic but unstable Portuguese First Republic was established, later being superseded by the Estado Novo right-wing authoritarian regime.

Other: Portugal, Azores (NUTS 1), Madeira (NUTS 1), Continental Portugal

Neighbours: Sur, Centro, Noroeste

Subregions: Norte Region, Algarve, Centro region, Lisbon Region, Alentejo region

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Continental Portugal – PT1, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PPT1, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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