Why Doesn't Duolingo Have European Portuguese?

Why doesn't Duolingo have European Portuguese? Duolingo has never given an official reason, so the honest answer is economics, not a stated policy. A full course is expensive to build and maintain, and the payoff scales with audience. Brazil has more than 200 million Portuguese speakers to Portugal's roughly 10 million (Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese overviews), so one Brazilian course reaches far more learners for the same effort. Duolingo can also lean on the fact that the two dialects share a written language, which lets a single course look like it "covers" Portuguese. It reads as covered on the shelf. It does not sound covered in a Lisbon cafe.

We have no inside knowledge of Duolingo's decisions here, only the same public facts anyone can see. The point for you is practical: a course driven by market size is unlikely to prioritise your Lisbon accent soon, so the fix is a tool that already specialises in Portugal. If you are still weighing whether an equivalent even exists, here is whether there is a Duolingo for European Portuguese.