GDP

Three months after the last economic forecasts, and after an equal period of the Persian Gulf blockade, the Bank of Portugal (BdP) continues to expect a GDP increase of 1.8% this year, leaving [...]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised its estimate for Portuguese economic growth downwards on Tuesday, from 2.1% to 1.9% for this year. This forecast represents a downward revision of [...]

Portugal’s exports and not consumer spending was what most drove the economy on the whole in 2025. According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) released on Friday, the [...]

Portugal once again stood out among the eurozone’s top-performing economies in the last quarter of 2025. Portugal saw its economy grow by 0.8% in 4Q – over double the eurozone’s average of [...]

Portugal’s Forum for Competitiveness, led by economist Pedro Braz Teixeira, estimates that last year the economy grew slightly below the government’s forecast at between 1.5% and 1.9% But for [...]

A cooling of economic activity from Portugal’s main trading partners Spain, France, Germany, the UK and the US is having a negative knock-on effect for Portuguese exporters affecting 65% of [...]

Portugal’s National Statistics institute (INE) revised Portugal’s growth upwards on Tuesday with the economy growing a further €6.6Bn for 2023 and 2024 in real terms. And Portugal’s economy grew [...]

Portugal’s overseas trading and investment bureau AICEP says that faced with a growing scenario of economic stagnation in the Euro Zone, Portugal’s exports would have to grow 3.4% per year to [...]

The Euro Zone’s economy is on track to grow 0.9% in 2025 with Portugal’s GDP growing 1.7% in the same period according to a new study from KPMG. Despite KPMG’s forecasts of a slight recovery for [...]

The leader of Portuguese populist party Chega – now the leading opposition party in the parliament – André Ventura, has accused the Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, of [...]