Portugal 
Facts
Population:
10,066,253 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
16.96% (male 877,379; female 830,242)
15-64 years:
67.42% (male 3,321,473; female 3,465,481)
65 years and over:
15.62% (male 637,207; female 934,471) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.18% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
11.51 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
10.21 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.96 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.68 male(s)/female
total population:
0.92 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
5.94 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
75.94 years
male:
72.44 years
female:
79.68 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.48 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.74% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
36,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
280 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Portuguese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Portuguese
Ethnic groups:
homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000
Religions:
Roman Catholic 94%, Protestant (1995)
Languages:
Portuguese
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
87.4%
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $159 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.7% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $15,800 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
4%
industry:
36%
services:
60% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.1%
highest 10%:
28.4% (1995 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.8% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
5 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 60%, industry 30%, agriculture 10% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
4.3% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$48.6 billion
expenditures:
$50.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $7.7 billion (2000 est.)
Industries:
textiles and footwear; wood pulp, paper, and cork; metalworking; oil refining; chemicals; fish canning; wine; tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
2.9% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production:
41.696 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
79.97%
hydro:
17.25%
nuclear:
0%
other:
2.78% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
37.915 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
4.49 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
3.628 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
grain, potatoes, olives, grapes; sheep, cattle, goats, poultry, beef, dairy products
Exports:
$26.1 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
clothing and footwear, machinery, chemicals, cork and paper products, hides
Exports - partners:
EU 83% (Germany 20%, Spain 18%, France 14%, UK 12%, Netherlands 5%, Benelux 5%, Italy), US 5% (1999)
Imports:
$41 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum, textiles, agricultural products
Imports - partners:
EU 78% (Spain 25%, Germany 15%, France 11%, Italy 8%, UK 7%, Netherlands 5%), US 3%, Japan 3% (1998)
Debt - external:
$13.1 billion (1997 est.)
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $271 million (1995)
Currency:
Portuguese escudo (PTE); euro (EUR)
note:
on 1 January 1999, the EU introduced the euro as a common currency that is now being used by financial institutions in Portugal at a fixed rate of 200.482 Portuguese escudos per euro and will replace the local currency for all transactions in 2002
Currency code:
PTE; EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); Portuguese escudos per US dollar - 180.10 (1998), 175.31 (1997), 154.24 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Independent National Economic and Financial Newspa), Barcarena
http://www.agenciafinanceira.iol.pt
Lisbon
http://www.correiomanha.pt/
(Independent), Lisbon
http://www.dn.pt/
(Online news portal), Lisbon
http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/
(Independent weekly), Lisbon
http://www.expresso.pt/
(Business daily), Lisbon
http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/
(Independent daily), Oporto
http://jn.sapo.pt/
Portugal in the News
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