{"id":407842,"date":"2026-02-04T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407842\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:20:17","slug":"does-the-portuguese-pension-cover-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407842\/","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\/uk\/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":407843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-407842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}