High tech exports reach new record in 2025
Portuguese high-technology exports reached a new historic high in 2025. In total, Portugal exported almost €4.1Bn of highly technologically intensive products, with emphasis on goods from the aerospace and telecommunications sectors. Exports were back to the record levels seen before the pandemic.
Over the year as a whole, Portugal exported a total of €4,080 million in high-technology products, characterised by products that had required strong levels of investment in research and development (R&D) and presenting a high degree of technical sophistication.
The amount was €15 million more compared to the previous record recorded in 2022 – a year in which inflation made a strong contribution to the growth in the nominal value of exports due to the rise in the prices of traded goods.
With prices slowing down in the following years, exports had struggled to surpass the €4Bn threshold reached in 2022.
However, last year, Portugal’s high-tech exports hit a new historic high, bolstering the Government’s ambitions to not only increase exports, but also increase added value and levels of innovation.
Electronic products in the area of telecommunications explained more than half of these high technology exports, as had been the case in previous years.
In 2025, Portugal exported a total of €2.3Bn in this type of goods – an increase of 1.1% compared to the previous year. These products included, for example, network infrastructure, amplifiers, headphones and loudspeakers.
In aerospace, Portugal continued to post the greatest growth from among high-technology products.
Exports of aerospace products soared 49.1% to €160 million. This strong rise was due “to the maturation and consolidation of the aerospace sector, after 26 years at ESA [European Space Agency]”, said Leonardo Oliveira, space area manager at AED Cluster Portugal – which brings together the Aeronautics, Space and Defence sectors. “The domestic market needs to be highly export orientated”, he noted.
Jornal de Negócios; Credits: AICEP
