In Portugal, cash is used for 81% of Point-of-Sale payments (ECB, 2017)

The statistic comes from the European Central Bank's study on Cash Use by Household in the Euro Area, published in November 2017.

The report presents estimations of the number and value of cash transactions in all 19 euro area countries in 2016, based on survey result as well as figures on main payments by demographic.

According to the findings from the European Central Bank's report, cash was used for 81% of point-of-sale payments in Portugal in terms of number of transactions (ECB, 2017).

Excerpt from ECB Working Paper

In terms of value of payments made at POS, in all countries the share of cash was much lower than in terms of number of payments.