Home ownership as a percentage of all dwellings reached 75.0 % in 2017 in Portugal, according to the National Statistical Office. This is 0.266 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, home ownership as a percentage of all dwellings in Portugal reached an all time high of 75.7 % in 2001 and an all time low of 44.5 % in 1960. When compared to Portugal's main peers, home ownership as a percentage of all dwellings in France amounted to 65.0 % and 69.6 % in Ireland in 2017.
Portugal has been ranked 13th within the group of 26 countries we follow in terms of home ownership as a percentage of all dwellings, 7 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
Home ownership shows the share of the population (or dwellings, depending on the source of information) which lives in a dwelling they own or have taken a mortgage for.
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