Portugal
Portugal in numbers
39 measures of Portugal from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.71% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$5.51B in 2025
- Military spending per person$563 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel52,000 people in 2020
- National power0.12% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.01% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports90 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Portugal with…
- Portugal vs Russia
- Portugal vs Türkiye
- Portugal vs Germany
- Portugal vs United Kingdom
- Portugal vs France
- Portugal vs Italy
- Portugal vs Spain
- Portugal vs Ukraine
- Portugal vs Uzbekistan
- Portugal vs Poland
- Portugal vs Kazakhstan
- Portugal vs Romania
- Portugal vs Netherlands
- Portugal vs Belgium
- Portugal vs Czechia
- Portugal vs Tajikistan
- Portugal vs Sweden
- Portugal vs Greece
- Portugal vs Azerbaijan
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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