INE's 29 May tape posts €1.607 billion in tourist-accommodation revenue Jan-Apr 2026, up 5.3% YoY, against just 1.0% growth in dormidas to 20.7 million. The receita-over-volume gap is the structural story: hotels and Alojamento Local are selling fewer added room-nights at meaningfully higher rates.
Portugal's provisional April unemployment rate fell to 5.7% from March's 5.8%, INE confirmed on Friday 29 May. Year-on-year, the headline is 0.5 percentage points lower; the broader underutilisation gauge dropped 0.8 points to 9.7%, extending the soft-landing pattern alongside the Q1 GDP print.
INE has locked in the detailed Q1 2026 reading at 2.3% year-on-year and 0% quarter-on-quarter — confirming the 30 April flash estimate. The domestic-demand-vs-net-exports split carries the sequencing of the rest-of-2026 growth path against the EC, OECD and CIP/ISEG downward forecast revisions.
INE's 28 May 2026 Tábua de Mortalidade prints Portuguese esperança de vida à nascença at 81.75 years for 2023-2025 — women at 84.21, men at 78.99, and the at-65 figure at 20.19 years (women 21.55, men 18.43), with falling mortality in the 60+ bracket driving the triennium step up.
INE's 28 May release lifts Portuguese consumer confidence after three months of decline while business confidence splits — Indústria Transformadora drops from -1.1 to -4.1, Comércio cools from 4.6 to 2.0, Serviços holds at 22.6 and Construção rises from -5.4 to -2.9, a twelve-month high.
INE's April 2026 housing-appraisal release on Wednesday 27 May lifts the national median to a record €2,174/m² — €23 above March (+1.1%) and 16.5% YoY across 34,483 valuations. Apartments hit €2,546/m² (+21%), single-family €1,561/m² (+12.7%); Grande Lisboa leads at €3,352/m².
Portugal's at-risk-of-poverty rate stalls at 15.4% on the 2025 EU-SILC reading, breaking the 2022–2024 downward trajectory. The €723 monthly threshold leaves more than 1.74 million Portuguese inside the perimeter; without pensions and social transfers the rate would sit at 40.7%.
