{"id":455014,"date":"2026-02-05T07:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455014\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:36:24","slug":"does-the-portuguese-pension-cover-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455014\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Portuguese pension cover retirement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Datapulse.de<\/a> compared the average state pension with the actual annual expenditures of people aged 60 and over in a Europe-wide analysis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pension-stats.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" width=\"800\" data-height=\"600\"\/>Credits: Supplied Image; Author: Datapulse; <\/p>\n<p>The key findings for Portugal:<\/p>\n<p>Average State Pension: \u20ac11,500 per year.Typical Annual Expenses: \u20ac13,800.This leads to a calculated deficit of 17% (before taxes).<\/p>\n<p>Compared to other European countries, Portugal falls within the majority of countries where pensions do not fully cover typical living costs. In most nations, retirees face a shortfall of over 30%, and only in four countries do state pensions exceed everyday expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Datapulse.de compared the average state pension with the actual annual expenditures of people aged 60 and over in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-455014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}