Active population as a share of the reference-age population; percent, 2015–2024.
Portugal’s labour-force participation is tracked annually from 2015 through 2024. The rate is the active population as a percentage of the source’s reference-age population. The highest value was 60.2% in 2023, while the lowest was 57.2% in 2020. The final rate was 60.2%, 2.8 percentage points above the 2015 level.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2015 | 57.4% | 2015 est. |
| 2 | 2016 | 57.5% | 2016 est. |
| 3 | 2017 | 58.1% | 2017 est. |
| 4 | 2018 | 58.5% | 2018 est. |
| 5 | 2019 | 58.5% | 2019 est. |
| 6 | 2020 | 57.2% | 2020 est. |
| 7 | 2021 | 58.2% | 2021 est. |
| 8 | 2022 | 59.3% | 2022 est. |
| 9 | 2023 | 60.2% | 2023 est. |
| 10 | 2024 | 60.2% | 2024 est. |
Source 1: Activity rate: total and by sex
Publisher: PORDATA
Dataset/table: PORDATA Labour Statistics
Units: percent
Date checked: 2026-07-17
Evidence: Supports Portugal’s annual total activity rate from 2015 through 2024.
The activity rate is the active population as a percentage of the source’s reference-age population.
The published total activity rate is used directly for each year; male and female rates are not averaged to reconstruct the total.
All years use the same Statistics Portugal Labour Force Survey family and percentage basis.
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