In 2025, 9.5 percent of residents had been below the poverty line in at least three of the last four years, up from 7.1 percent in 2024. That is about six in ten of everyone counted as poor, and people aged 65 and over have the highest rate of any age group.
Thirty-seven people at Clarimundo and Tardoz da Improsit live without water, power or toilets, five years after the council's housing strategy listed them. It says it knows who qualifies but gives no timetable.
Researchers at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Fraunhofer IAO put Portugal at 19 percent, second worst of six countries. On Eurostat's official measure, refreshed on Thursday, Portugal is the worst of the six but Poland is the best.
The Ministry of Labour has dropped the Código das Prestações Sociais from the PRR's Social Security milestone, leaving the Prestação Social Única as the sole gate to the €5.193 billion final tranche — Palma Ramalho cited a 63-month RSI duration before parliament on Friday.
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%.
The Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) released the headline reading of its Inquérito às Condições de Vida e Rendimento (ICOR) 2025 on the morning of Wednesday 20 May 2026 , placing the at-risk-of-poverty rate in Portugal at 15.4% on 2024...
