&NewLine;<p>The figures leave no room for doubt&comma; even after a second re-reading&period; It's a sad truth&comma; Portugal's interior is depopulating&period; Portugal risks finding itself in a situation of no return and therefore&comma; it would be very worrying not to remedy this&comma; declared Fernandes de Matos during one of the analyses of the preliminary results of the 2021 census&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Portugal's interior is depopulating</h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The data published today by the Institut national de statistique &lpar;<a href="https://ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpgid=ine_main&;xpid=ine" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">INE</a>&rpar; indicate that&rsquo&semi;over the last decade between 2011 and 2021&comma; Portugal has recorded a population decline of 2 &percnt;&period; This translates into an overpopulation of coastal cities and a concentration of population in the capital&period; </p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>For the regional development researcher&comma; professor at the University of Beira Interior Fernandes de Matos&period; There is still time to&rsquo&semi;stop the process of depopulation in Portugal&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This data confirms that public policies have not produced the expected results&period; Regional policy in a way&comma; aims to reduce asymmetries and what we have seen is that despite the millions that have been invested every year&comma; these investments have not produced the results they were supposed to&period; As a result, Portugal&rsquo&semi;s interior and very concretely the interior center&comma; continues to be emptied, not to say emptied;have not produced the results they were supposed to&period; so that Portugal's interior and, more specifically, the interior center&comma; continues to empty out, not to say die&comma; stressed Fernandes de Matos in statements to the Lusa&period press agency;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>From the researcher's point of view&comma; "the desertified interior and the overpopulated coastline are a de-economy"&comma; with significant economic&comma; social and environmental costs&comma; so the solution must be to&rsquo&semi;reverse public policies&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The scenario presented in the preliminary results of the 2021 census "is not encouraging" and for some areas in the country's interior&comma; is a real debacle&comma; said Fernandes de Matos&period; He considers that the population is falling between 14 &percnt; and 18 &percnt; in some areas&comma; as is the case in Almeida &lpar;-18&comma;8 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Celorico da Beira &lpar;-14&comma;4 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo &lpar;-17&comma;7 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Idanha-a-Nova &lpar;-14&comma;2 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Manteigas &lpar;-15&comma;2 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Potters &lpar;-14&comma;4 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Penamacor &lpar;-16&comma;2 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Pinhel &lpar;-15&comma;9 &percnt;&rpar; and Proença-a-Nova &lpar;-14&comma;0 &percnt;&rpar;&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Covilhã&comma; university town saw its population drop by 10&comma;3 &percnt; over ten years&comma; this&rsquo&semi;is a lot"&comma; added the professor from the&rsquo&semi;University of Beira Interior&comma; explaining that&rsquo&semi;it has been difficult to retain people in the Beiras and Serra da Estrela sub-regions&comma; also because&rsquo&semi;there is "a huge wave of young people going abroad"&comma; who are qualified but can't find good working conditions to continue in Portugal&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In this sense&comma; the researcher stated that Portugal has not been able to <a href="https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/le-portugal-na-pas-dargent-pour-paye/" data-type="post" data-id="7765">monetize your resources</a>We believe that the solution lies in "creating income"&comma; because "poorly paid work is not conducive to development"&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Public decision-makers as well as private investors&comma; need to look at these data very carefully and once and for all&comma; find a platform for dialogue&comma; collaboration&comma; to reverse these figures and quickly&comma; because I would say that&rsquo&semi;it's not too late&nbsp&semi;" declared Fernandes de Matos&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Defending a "new cycle" of population concentration on the country's coast&comma; the professor at Beira Interior University warned that the&rsquo&semi;interior is "increasingly depleted of resources and demographic resources"&comma; requiring a better articulation of regional development policy&comma; whether national or European&comma; and "a major public policy effort to relaunch the&rsquo&semi;regional economy"&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Portugal today has a population of 10,347,892&comma; 214,286 fewer than in 2011&comma; according to the preliminary results of the 2021 census&period; In census terms&comma; the only decade in which there was a decline in population was between 1960 and 1970&comma; indicated the&rsquo&semi;INE&period;</p>&NewLine;
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