The elderly population in Portugal has grown by more than two percent per year since 2019, with the number of people aged 100 exceeding 3,000.

"The population in Portugal is aging", noted the statistics platform, noting that the median age increased from 38.5 to 47 years in two decades.

More than 2.5 million people are 65 or older.

“Aging is also seen in the number of individuals of working age per elderly person: there are 2.6 active people for each elderly person. 20 years ago, there were four for every elderly person”, according to the database.

Only two municipalities have more young people than elderly people, Lagoa and Ribeira Grande, in the Azores.

“10 years ago, there were 36 Portuguese municipalities with more young people than elderly people”, according to the same source. “Our country is the second in the EU with the highest rate of aging and the fourth in the world with the highest proportion of the elderly population”.

The platform also highlighted data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) this year, noting that the country currently has the highest number of residents in recent decades: 10.6 million.

Data analysis highlights that the Portuguese are “more alone”, there are more couples without children and more than a million people live alone.

More than half of the people who live alone are elderly (55%), which makes Portugal the fourth country in the European Union with the highest percentage of elderly people living alone among the total number of people in this condition.

Marriages between foreigners have almost tripled in the last decade, from 767 in 2013 to 2,163 last year.

Wedding celebrations between Portuguese and foreigners increased by three percentage points, representing 15% of marriages in the period under analysis, for a total of 5,409 in 2023.

Migration balances have almost doubled in the last two years.