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The GVA and employment of the environmental goods and services sector grew, despite the strong decrease in the total economy
Environmental Goods and Services Sector Accounts
The GVA and employment of the environmental goods and services sector grew, despite the strong decrease in the total economy - 2020
30 January 2023

Summary

In 2020, the environmental goods and services sector represented 3.9% of output, 2.8% of GVA, 4.4% of exports and 2.5% of employment in the Portuguese economy.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, this sector recorded increases in output (0.6%), GVA (1.9%) and employment (7.2%), contrary to what happened in the national economy (decreases of 7.5%, 5.8% and 2.2%, respectively).  Exports decreased by 2.1% in 2020, for the second consecutive year. 

In 2019, the last year with available information for the EU, Portugal occupied the twelfth position among the countries with the highest share of GVA of the environmental goods and services sector in national GVA and the fifth position among the countries with the highest share of exports in the national total.


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