EU
Portugal
~32%
Work in exposed occupations
~1.67 m · estimate · 2025
5.7%
Unemployment
±0.0 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
19.8%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
1.6%
Job vacancy rate
Q1 2026
79.6%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
12%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.65
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
5.25 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
PortugalEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Portugal
- 49Not exposed
- 19Minimal
- 4Low
- 11Medium
- 10High
- 7Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+2.1%
Change 2025→2035
1.44 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
1.33 m
Replacement demand
+111 k
Expansion
- Information and communications technology professionals+45.0%
- Chief executives, senior officials and legislators+38.7%
- Health associate professionals+33.2%
- Business and administration professionals+27.5%
- Administrative and commercial managers+25.2%
- Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals+17.5%
- Hospitality, retail and other services managers−14.6%
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers−14.8%
- Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians−19.6%
- Cleaners and helpers−23.0%
- Handicraft and printing workers−32.3%
- Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers−32.4%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
9%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
44%
of skills will change
global: 39%
93%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.