The results of the Survey on Living Conditions and Income (EU-SILC) carried out in 2025 on income from the previous year (2024) show a distribution of net monetary income per equivalent adult concentrated around the lowest values, with 15.4% of the population at risk of poverty living with an annual net monetary income per equivalent adult of less than €723 per month.
The Gini coefficient data show a positive and relatively stable contribution of direct taxes and compulsory social contributions to the alleviation of inequality in the income distribution.
In 2023, Portugal had the seventh highest S80/S20 ratio in the European Union. The contribution of taxes to the reduction of inequality in the distribution of income measured by the S80/S20 ratio was greater than the contribution of social transfers – in the case of taxes, higher than the European average and, in the case of social transfers, lower than that observed for the European Union as a whole.
