OECD
Published 8 November 2026, 22:31
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE in Portuguese, OECD in English)
A group of 38 countries, Portugal among them, headquartered in Paris. It does not pass laws or hand out money; it collects and compares countries' data: house prices, taxes, wages, schools (the PISA test). Portuguese newspapers and the government often cite its comparisons.
Where you come across it. News about house prices, taxes and the economy; comparisons of Portugal with other countries.
Many OECD figures are indices in which each country is compared with itself in a base year (often 2015). A high index means things have got much worse than they were, not that the country is the most expensive.
Official website: oecd.org/en/countries/portugal.html