INE's May IPPI prints at 5.1% year-on-year, with the energia component up 19.5% and contributing about 3.0 points to the headline. The ex-energy index sits at 2.4%, lining up with Banco de Portugal's H2 inflation glide path to 2.0%.
INE's ISDR 2024 (Índice Sintético de Desenvolvimento Regional) lifts only five of 26 NUTS III sub-regions above the 100-point national average — Grande Lisboa leads at 107.83, the Açores anchor the tail at 92.95 but top environmental quality at 113.84.
As the Portuguese national football team prepared to open its 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign against the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 18:00 Western European Summer Time (WEST) in Houston, the country's bilateral economic relationship with its...
INE's detailed Q1 2026 Contas Nacionais Trimestrais (Quarterly National Accounts) decompose the +0.2% QoQ / +1.7% YoY print across investment, net exports, private consumption and the public-sector wage adjustment — with the Pacote Defesa profile and the IRC-cut glide path framing the H2 read.
Portugal's monthly trade tape lost its momentum in May. The Instituto Nacional de Estatística (National Institute of Statistics) reported that exports of goods contracted 1.5% year-on-year and imports fell 3.4%, a reversal of the +15.5% export jump...
INE's April 2026 international trade release lifts Portuguese exports +15.5% YoY — the strongest pace since July 2024 — with fuels at +32%, Spain at +11.1%, France at +12.5% and Germany at +12%, narrowing the bilateral deficit by €149M.
Statistics Portugal puts the Índice de Custos de Construção de Habitação Nova at +5.9% year-on-year in April — a 0.2 pp acceleration on March — with labour contributing 3.4 points and materials 2.5 points to the headline cost squeeze that keeps Portuguese developer margins tight.
