Balance of Payments

Portugal’s trade deficit widened by around 15% in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. It means that in a year plagued by a high degree of economic and geopolitical [...]

Portuguese families were partly behind Portugal ’s growth success story in 2025 highlighted by the UK magazine The Economist. Portugal was elected the ‘economy of the year’ for 2025 partly on the [...]

Portugal’s net external debt fell to 43.9% of GDP in the first quarter of this year, the lowest level since December 2004, representing €126.9Bn, the Bank of Portugal (BdP) announced on Tuesday. [...]

Portugal’s economy posted an overseas balance of payments surplus of €535 million in January, down €397 million like-for-like in 2024 according to the Bank of Portugal. The data from the central [...]

Total trade in goods and services (exports plus imports) between the UK and Portugal was £11.2Bn in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2024, an increase of 0.7% or £83 million (€100 million) in [...]

Portuguese exports of goods and imports rose 23.5% and 15.5%, respectively, in July, compared to the same month last year, according to data released this Monday by the National Institute of [...]

Portugal has hit a 75-year record of €908 million for its trade surplus for the first half of 2024 according to data from the Bank of Portugal (BoP). Since January, the balance of goods and [...]

The Ethics Committee of the European Central Bank has concluded that the governor of the Bank of Portugal did not act in a way that compromised his independence in the case of the prime [...]

The Portuguese Finance minister Fernando Medina said yesterday that Portugal had the conditions to continue to reduce external debt over the next few years despite the rate of inflation slowing. [...]

Portugal’s economy clocked up a €6.2Bn overseas trade balance of payments surplus to September, 2023, compared to a deficit of €1.6Bn for the same period in 2022 and represented 3.2% of [...]