The latest data from INE confirms that only 1,801 buildings were constructed between 2001 and 2005, about three times as many as between 2016 and 2021.
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Author: Redaction
According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), between 2001 and 2005, in the municipality of Lisbon, 1,801 residential and non-residential buildings were constructed, a number around three times greater than that registered between the years 2016 and 2021, and in these five years only 529 buildings were completed in the capital's municipality.
Based on the number of residents in the capital, and when analysing the evolution of construction based on this variant,
around 9.7 properties per 10 thousand inhabitants were built between 2016 and 2021, when twenty years earlier this ratio exceeded 32 properties per 10 thousand inhabitants. In the INE data, included in the report "Statistics of the Physiological Movement of the Population of Portugal", it is possible to go even further back in time, showing that about 100 years ago, until 1919, about 8,322 buildings were built in Lisbon, when at that time there were 191 buildings for every 10 thousand residents of the municipality of
Lisbon, in a population of 435,359 inhabitants.
On the other hand, more properties were built in
Porto than in Lisbon between 2016 and 2021, with 768 residential and non-residential properties completed in that period.