Social trends, demographics, and community issues in modern Portugal.
Forty-five organisations warn that Portugal's domestic-violence and anti-trafficking support networks are 'beginning to collapse,' with around 50 services facing a funding cliff ahead of a Monday meeting with the minister.
The Instituto para os Comportamentos Aditivos e as Dependências (Institute for Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies — ICAD) opens Portugal's first publicly funded clinic dedicated to the treatment of perturbação de jogo a dinheiro (gambling...
The Guarda Nacional Republicana (National Republican Guard — GNR) closed nine residences that had been operating illegally as lares de idosos (elderly-care homes) in Lousada, in the Porto district, on Tuesday and detained seven people, the force...
INE's Estatísticas Vitais print for 2025 books 87,764 live births in Portugal, +3.7% on 2024 — but 121,817 deaths and a one-in-three foreign-mother share leave the natural-balance gap wide. What the BdP migration cut means for the trajectory.
The Observatório do Afogamento at FEPONS logs 57 drowning deaths in Portugal between 1 January and 31 May 2026 — second-worst pre-bathing-season tally since the 2017 series began, with rivers carrying 47.2% of Q1 fatalities and 100% occurring outside lifeguard-patrolled zones.
A 1,041-adult survey run 8–24 May by Bárbara Gomes' team at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra finds 67.1% want palliative care to be the SNS's maximum priority, with home-death preference up from 51% in 2010 to 65.4%.
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.
