A 20% reduction in economic turnover, and an equally steep increase in unemployment.

During the last decade, economic turnover in this country fell by 40%, and this year it fell by almost another 6%.

It was under him that the use of barter and money surrogates reached 85 percent, 75 percent of the economic turnover.

With the annual growth rate of the marine business being 14.9%, this sector is in fast expansion and is seen to have a higher economic turnover than traditional agriculture.

The World Economic Forum estimated that, in 2006 tourism generated around US$25 billion in economic turnover, and employed 1.8 million.

In 2007, there were 3660 companies in São João da Madeira: despite being the smallest municipality in size in Portugal, it is the twentieth in economic turnover.