The Autonomous Region of Madeira registered 238 deaths and 136 births in August 2026. Although mortality decreased by 1.7% compared to the same month in 2025, births fell by 11.7%, resulting in a negative natural balance of 102 people.
This balance is less favorable than the -88 recorded in August 2025. However, in the cumulative first eight months of the year, the natural balance improved, moving from -862 to -766 individuals compared to the same period in 2025.
Preliminary data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), regionalized by DREM, indicate that between January and August, 1,926 people died, 28 fewer than in the homologous period of 2025. Despite this reduction, the number of deaths in August was 11.5% above the average for August months between 2016 and 2019.
