Portuguese Births Rebound to 87,764 in INE's 2025 Demographic Tape — Foreign-Born Mothers Carry Roughly a Third of the Recovery as Natural-Balance Deficit Widens to −34,053
Portugal logged 87,764 live births in 2025 (+3.7% YoY) per INE — but the natural-balance deficit widened to −34,053 and roughly one in three babies was born to a foreign-born mother. The Total Fertility Rate remains stuck near 1.40 with population sustained by net migration.
