Portugal is the country in the European Union (EU) with the highest proportion of families with only one child, according to PORDATA.
“It is, in fact, a country of only children”, highlighted the same source, noting that only 27% of families have children and, among these, almost two-thirds have only one child.
In the European Union, large families (with at least three children) represent 13% of families with children, “double the proportion in Portugal (6%)”, according to the same source.
Single-parent families increased by 22% and the number of people living alone increased by 28%.
In the overwhelming majority of single-parent families (87.3%), the parent is a woman, which is 3.5 percentage points above the European average (83.8%).
“In Estonia and Sweden, in around a third of single-parent families, the parent is a man”, highlighted PORDATA.