In 2023, Portugal was more unfair towards young and future generations than in 2020. After an improvement in intergenerational justice in Portugal between 2016 and 2020, the well-being of young and future generations compared to older generations deteriorated after the covid-19 pandemic and until 2023, shows an update of the Intergenerational Justice Index for Portugal presented this Thursday at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, in relation to the results released two years ago (which had data until 2020).
The Intergenerational Justice Index for Portugal – which aggregates the dimensions of environment and natural resources, health, labor market, housing, poverty and living conditions – fell from 0.49 in 2020 to 0.47 in 2022 and 0.43 in 2023 (the years that recorded the biggest drop). A regression that is essentially due to the housing crisis, but also to reduced access to healthcare and, to a lesser extent, the weight of public finances, according to the report “What Future Do We Leave for the Next Generations?”, from ISEG’s Institute of Public Policy, in partnership with Gulbenkian.