The total population of Portugal is 10,291,196 people. The people of Portugal speak the Portuguese language. The linguistic diversity of Portugal is almost homogeneous according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.0198 for Portugal. The average age is around 41.1 years. Life expectancy in Portugal is 81 years. The female birth rate in Portugal is 1.2. Around 24% of Portugal's population is obese. Ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.0468 for Portugal. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Portugal can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.
Population
In Portugal, the population density is 115 people per square kilometer (299 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered densely populated. The total population of Portugal is 10,291,196 people. Portugal has approximately 837,257 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Portugal account for 0.4 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Portugal account for 8.4 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. The ethnic diversity of Portugal is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic Fractionation (EF) deals with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of diverse cultural groups, usually within a state or some other demarcated area. Specific cultural characteristics can refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. These characteristics are often used for social exclusion and power monopolization. The index of ethnic fractionation in Portugal is 0.0468. This means that the people living in Portugal are somewhat fractional. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Read below the statistics of Portugal on the average age and gender distribution at different ages.
Age
The average age is around 41.1 years. The average age of men is 39 and the average age of women is 43.3 years.
Gender
The sex ratio, or the number of males for every female (estimated at birth), is 1.07. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio under 15 - 1.09; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 0.99; sex ratio over 64 - 0.7; Overall sex ratio - 0.95. The overall sex ratio differs from the sex ratio estimated at birth. This is because some newborns are included in the sex ratio estimated at birth, but die within the first few weeks of life and are not included in the overall sex ratio.
Religion
The majority religion in Portugal is Christianity, whose adherents make up 93.8% of all religious believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the largest religion in the world with over 2.4 billion followers known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose coming as Christ or Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. In addition to Christianity, there are some followers of Islam in Portugal. Portugal's religious diversity is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Portugal. The index of religious fractionation in Portugal is 0.1438. This score means that within the country there is a major belief with a few other subordinate beliefs.
General development
Portugal is considered to be a developed nation. The developmental stage of a nation is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, economic prosperity, life expectancy, income equality, and quality of life. As a developed nation, Portugal is able to provide its citizens with social services like public education, healthcare, and law enforcement. Citizens of developed nations enjoy a high standard of living and longer life expectancies than citizens of developing nations. In Portugal, 64 in every 100 people use internet. Portugal has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.822. Portugal has a high HDI score. This indicates that the majority of citizens will be able to attain a desirable life while providing substantial aid and assistance to citizens with lower living standards. The migration rate in Portugal is 2.67%. In Portugal, 19% of the population lives below the poverty line. The percentage of citizens living below the poverty line in Portugal is fairly high, but is not reason for complete concern with regard to investments. Potential financial backers should look at other economic markers, including GDP, urbanization rate, and strength of currency, before making any decisions regarding investments.
Language
People in Portugal speak the Portuguese language. The linguistic diversity of Portugal is almost homogeneous according to a fractionalization scale based on the number of unrelated languages spoken in Portugal. The index of linguistic fractionalization in Portugal is 0.0198. This means that within the country there is one major language and a few minor languages. Unrelated languages share few characteristics of grammatical structure, vocabulary, and etymological heritage. Linguistic diversity often results in issues of social and cultural fractionalization that can impact a country’s political circumstance and public policies.
