In 2019, persons employed, turnover and gross value added (GVA) of non-financial enterprises grew by 3.8%, 4.0% and 5.8% respectively, lower growth rates than in 2018 (+4.3%, +6.8% and +6.4% in 2018, in the same order). Personnel costs and gross operating surplus grew by 8.5% and 2.2% respectively (+8.3% and +3.8% in the previous year, in the same order).
Among the sectors of activity, the companies from Construction and real estate, Agriculture and fishing and Information and communication registered the highest growth rates of GVA in 2019, 16.0%, 12.5% and 10.5% respectively (+13.2%, +0.2% and +6.2% in 2018 respectively). Manufacturing and energy continued to be the sector with the highest weight in GVA (29.5%), growing 1.6% in 2019 (+3.2% in the previous year).
The apparent labour productivity of non-financial companies reached EUR 29 712 per person employed in 2019 (+1.4% compared to the previous year). The average annual remuneration was EUR 15 027 per person employed in the same year (+3.5% compared to 2018).
In 2019, there were 26 747 companies with an exporting profile in Portugal (+3.2% compared to 2018), accounting for 6.1% of total non-financial companies in Portugal. These companies represented 22.9% of the persons employed, 34.3% of the turnover and 31.9% of the GVA of total non-financial companies (-0.1 p.p., -0.5 p.p. and -0.7 p.p., vis-à-vis 2018, respectively).