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Portugal is an aging country, with elderly people living alone, with little savings and where work is precarious, employers and employees have little schooling and there are few women in the police force.
The “Portrait of Portugal in Europe” – 2020 edition – is a publication launched by Pordata, the statistical database of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, on the date of European Statistics Day.
The publication, which collects data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), compares, where possible, various socio-economic indicators for Portugal with the remaining 26 Member States, including population, income, education, health, employment, social protection, macroeconomics, science and technology, environment, energy, tourism, justice and security.
The most up-to-date statistics available focus on the years 2018 and 2019 (except for those on social protection, which date back to 2017).
In 2018, Portugal had 157 elderly people (aged 65 and over) for every 100 young people (under 15 years old), exceeding the EU average of 27 countries (132 elderly people) and occupying third place in the table, led for Italy (171 older people).
The country rose to second place in 2019, with 55% of single-person households aged 65 and over, exceeding the EU average of 40%. In this item, Croatia is the country with the most elderly people living alone (66% of households) and Sweden the least (13%).
However, in general, regardless of age, Portugal appeared in 2019, together with Croatia and Slovakia, at the bottom of the table of countries with single-person households (23%), while Sweden in the first position ( 57%). ), transposing the EU average (35%).
In 2019, Portugal led the podium in terms of the percentage of employers and employees without secondary or higher education, with 47.4% and 39.8%, respectively (the European average was 16.3% in both cases) .
The country remained on the podium, but descending to third position, with 20.8% of the employed population with a temporary contract (Spain occupies first place with 26.3%, the EU average being 15.0%). %).
According to statistics, in 2019, Portugal was the seventh country with the highest average hours of work per week (35.6 hours for dependent workers, the EU average being 29.9 hours). In this field, Poland was the country with the most working hours per week (38.0) and Germany the least (25.6).
Portugal is also in seventh place in terms of the rate of early school leaving, which in 2019 stood at 10.6% among young people aged 18 to 24 who did not complete secondary education (the EU average of 27 it was 10.2%, with Spain leading, with 17.3%).
The percentage of the population residing in Portugal without secondary or higher education (between 25 and 34 years old) was, last year, the third highest (24.8%) in a table led again by Spain (30.2%).
Portugal was also, in 2019, the third country with the most private consumption and debt in public administrations as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (64.1% and 117.7%, respectively), in a list headed, in both situations, by Greece (68.0% and 176.6%, respectively).
Last year, most companies in Portugal (with 10 or more people employed) had a website (59%), but the country was in the worst three places, behind Denmark, at the top (94%) , and the EU average (77%).
Portugal is also part of the three worst positions in terms of the number of households with an Internet connection (81%), behind the Netherlands, leading (98%), and the European average (90%).
Although in 2018 it was the fifth country with the most police officers per 100,000 inhabitants (451), Portugal is the one with, in the same year, the least women in the police force (8.1%), unlike Lithuania (39.3 %).
Also according to statistics, Portugal was, in 2018, one of the seven countries with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions ‘per capita’, with 6.6 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (compared to 17.3 in Luxembourg, at the top of the table and 8.4 for the EU average).
In the same year, despite the fact that Portugal was the third country with the most doctors per 100,000 inhabitants (515), exceeding the European average (378), it was one of the eight countries with the fewest hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants ( 345), in a table in which the “champion” was Bulgaria (757).
In 2018, Portugal was the fifth country that spent the most on health, a sector that represented 5.3% of total family spending (Belgium is the leader with 6.6%), and the fourth with the most births of babies outside from the country. marriage (55.9%), after Slovenia, Bulgaria and France (leading, with 60.4%).
Still in the same year, Portugal was one of the seven countries where households saved the least (7.1%), in contrast to Luxembourg, the country with the least savings (21.9%).
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