Distillers Portugal
A one-page guide to Portugal for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Lisbon
- Official languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time zone
- Standard time UTC+0 and UTC-1, summer UTC+1 and UTC+0 (Wikipedia; split by region not confirmed)
- Area
- 92,230 km²
People
- Population
- 10.8 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 1.0% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 61.5%
- Aged under 15
- 12.7%
- Aged 65 and over
- 24.9%
- Life expectancy
- 82.4 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$346.6 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$32,082 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 1.9% (2025)
- Inflation
- 2.3% (2025)
Climate
Mainland and Madeira are Mediterranean; the Azores are temperate oceanic. Average temperatures about 4-20 C on the mainland, about 18 C in the Azores, 9-19 C in Madeira.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 for all beverage types since December 2015
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 13.75 litres of pure alcohol (2022-2024 average (WHO estimate for 2024))
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); World Bank indicators (population, area, GDP, GDP per capita, growth, inflation); WHO Global Health Observatory, indicator SA_0000001688; UN Comtrade public API (HS 2208); Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Wikipedia: Portugal; EU excise duty tables (position at 1 July 2021); Your Europe: alcohol allowances for travellers entering the EU; Licor Beirao - Wikipedia. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.