Summary
On december 31st 2011 the resident population in Portugal was estimated to be of 10,542,398 individuals, 30,323 less than the estimated population on December 31st 2010, resulting in a negative population growth rate of 0.29%.
The lowering rates of natural growth, reaching almost null or even negative values in recent years, alongside with a decrease in the migration growth rate to very low and even negative values as estimated for 2011, resulted in a slower pace of population growth rates between 2001 and 2009 and a population decrease both in 2010 and 2011.
Demographic events observed between 2001 and 2011 show: a decrease in the number of live births, reaching in 2011 the lowest value ever observed; a general decrease in mortality, with higher life expectancies at all ages; a decrease in the number of marriages, with the marriage rate reaching its lowest value in 2011; a reverse in the positive trend of divorces observed since 2001, with a decrease in the number of divorces from 2010 to 2011.