Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Portugal instead of Puerto Rico, you would:

Economy

be 39.4% less likely to be unemployed

In Puerto Rico, 10.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Portugal, that number is 6.5% as of 2019.

pay a 71.2% higher top tax rate

Puerto Rico has a top tax rate of 33.0% as of 2016. In Portugal, the top tax rate is 56.5% as of 2016.

Life

be 61.9% less likely to die during childbirth

In Puerto Rico, approximately 21.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Portugal, 8.0 women do as of 2017.

be 58.6% less likely to die during infancy

In Puerto Rico, approximately 6.0 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Portugal, on the other hand, 2.5 children do as of 2022.

Expenditures

spend 23.0% less on education

Puerto Rico spends 6.1% of its total GDP on education as of 2014. Portugal spends 4.7% of total GDP on education as of 2018.

Geography

see 3.6 times more coastline

Puerto Rico has a total of 501 km of coastline. In Portugal, that number is 1,793 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Puerto Rican Department of Treasury, Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira.

Portugal: At a glance

Portugal is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 91,470 sq km. Following its heyday as a global maritime power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence of Brazil, its wealthiest colony, in 1822. A 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy; for most of the next six decades, repressive governments ran the country. In 1974, a left-wing military coup installed broad democratic reforms. The following year, Portugal granted independence to all of its African colonies. Portugal is a founding member of NATO and entered the EC (now the EU) in 1986.
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