‘Portugal, a country emptied’

Published on 5 March 2013 at 10:42

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In its 23rd anniversary edition, Público draws a portrait of "a country in danger of dying of old age, in a Europe in demographic decline."
In 2012, 90,026 babies were born in Portugal and 107,287 people died. The net Portuguese population therefore fell by 17,261, a depressing record that the daily suggests demonstrates the level of crisis shaking the country, where fear of the future leads young couples to have only one child and forces many people to emigrate.
In the last five years, 300,000 to 400,000 people left the country and Portuguese women had on average only 1.3 children.

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