Portugal is in mourning after 16 people died and a further 23 were injured when Lisbon's famous Glória funicular cable railway derailed on Wednesday evening.

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro told a news conference on Thursday the number was revised down after emergency services earlier had put the toll at 17.

Among the dead were seven men and eight women, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon's Civil Protection Agency, said.

Five of those killed were Portuguese, while three Britons, two South Koreans, two Canadians, an American, a Ukrainian, a Swiss and a French national were also among the dead, police said.

Police have not yet confirmed the identities of those who died, but some have been named elsewhere. Here is what we know about them.