The Portuguese well being index has positively progressed between 2004 and 2011 and declined in 2012. It has recovered in 2013 and the preliminary estimates for 2016 keep this upwards trend, reaching 123.7.
The WBI illustrates developments of the well-being using two synthetic indices which in turn reveal two dimensions: Material living conditions and Quality of life.
These two indices, have evolved broadly in opposite directions, with the first showing a downward trend, and the second a rising trend; from 2013 they have evolved in the same direction: the improvement of well-being in Portugal.
Among the 10 domains integrating the WBI, Education, Civic participation and governance and Environment are the best performing components during the period under review.
Inversely, Labour and income and Economic vulnerability are the worst performing components, although they have been recovering since 2013.