Portugal is losing 20,000 people a year, the equivalent of a town the size of Oliveira do Hospital.
Although the Portuguese are living longer and longer, they are having fewer and fewer children, and there is a growing need for skilled immigration.
This demographic reality demands urgent adaptations to improve the well-being of the population, while also bringing with it enormous challenges for the future of the national economy. In a country where productivity remains low and public debt too high, economic growth requires innovative and sometimes disruptive solutions.
This Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos/RTP co-production, reveals some of the responses already challenging Portugal to grow.
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Documentaries from the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos co-produced by RTP, Portuguese National Television. .