Portugal, Spain, and the European Union have set as their target to have a contribution of 32% of renewables to final energy consumption by 2030. By 2021, Portugal had already exceeded this target by 2.0 pp; Spain and the EU were 10.2 p.p. and 11.3 p.p. above, respectively.

In the period 2013-2022, the average age at which women have their first child increased continuously in both countries, always higher in Spain than in Portugal. The sharpest difference (0.3 years) occurred in 2020, and the highest (1.1 years) in 2021. In the last year of this series, Portugal recorded 30.9 years and Spain 31.2 years.

Road freight transport, which has always been much higher in Spain, has seen different trends in the two countries over the decade 2013-2022, with a reduction of 3% (-4.7 million tonnes) in Portugal and an increase of 41% (+463.2 million tonnes) in Spain, between the beginning and the end of this period. 

In 2022, the risk of poverty or social exclusion in Spain was clearly higher (26.0%) than in Portugal (20.1%), both above the estimated value for the European Union as a whole (21.6%). The Romanian population was the most exposed to this risk (34.4%) and the Czech population the least exposed (11.8%).

These and other topics are addressed in the publication “The Iberian Peninsula in Numbers - 2023”.