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As of 4 November 2026, 8,681 health care companies are based in Portugal: 196 with 51+ employees, 20 hiring right now, led by primary medical & veterinary practices and Lisboa.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies, confident classification
- 8,681
- 51+ employees
- 196 · 2%
- Hiring now
- 20 · 5 new in 30 d
- Largest segment
- Primary medical & veterinary practices · 2,796
- Top city
- Lisboa · 924
- Running cold outbound
- 0
Health care in Portugal, by segment
Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Primary medical & veterinary practices | 2,796 · 10 |
| Dental practices | 1,626 · 3 |
| Psychotherapy counselling practices | 1,510 · 0 |
| Physiotherapy manual therapy | 1,350 · 1 |
| Personal & home care services | 1,010 · 4 |
| Vision & hearing care | 498 · 0 |
| Pharmacies | 427 · 2 |
| Medical & laboratory supply | 269 · 0 |
| Ambulance & medical transport | 29 · 0 |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 2,149 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 5,631 · 3 |
| 11-50 employees | 705 · 3 |
| 51-200 employees | 136 · 7 |
| 201-500 employees | 32 · 1 |
| 501-1000 employees | 12 · 4 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 15 · 2 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Lisboa | 924 | 11% |
| Porto | 540 | 6% |
| Braga | 169 | 2% |
| Coimbra | 157 | 2% |
| Vila Nova de Gaia | 118 | 1% |
| Lisbon | 97 | 1% |
| Viseu | 94 | 1% |
| Maia | 87 | 1% |
| Leiria | 83 | 1% |
| Aveiro | 74 | 1% |
| Setúbal | 65 | 1% |
| Almada | 64 | 1% |
The biggest health care companies in Portugal
The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.
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The stack of health care in Portugal
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8,681 health care companies are based in Portugal: 196 with 51 or more employees, 20 hiring right now (5 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by primary medical & veterinary practices and Lisboa. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/health_care/portugal)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
- StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
Health care in Portugal: questions
How many health care companies are there in Portugal?
8,681 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 196 of them have 51 or more employees.
How do you know a company belongs to health care?
We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.
Which health care companies in Portugal are hiring?
20 have an open role on their own career site today and 5 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.
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