2021 noticed 15,000 Portuguese residents go away the nation greater than 2020
About 60,000 Portuguese immigrated in 2021 – 15,000 greater than final yr, Emigration Report he describes as a “superb restoration” output, after a pointy decline in 2020. The UK additionally had “vacation spot”.
report, it’s due right this moment on the Ministry of International Affairs in Lisbon, and a part of Authorities Secretariat for Communities Portugal and is predicated on information collected from companies that maintain immigration statistics Emigration Observatory, a analysis heart of ISCTE – College of Lisbon.
It says that between 2019 and 2020, “immigrants dropped by 44%due to the disaster of the pandemic and Brexit”.
“Incarceration programs hindered mobility and created a world financial disaster that explains the issue of worldwide migration,” the authors clarify.
In 2021, half as many Portuguese emigrated as they did in 2013 (size of years of ‘austerity’ beneath the troika). Other than 2020, solely in 2003 was it recorded. With the 2013 disaster, since that yr there was a decline in migration.
However 2021 noticed a “exceptional restoration”, the report says – a 2020 improve of about 33%.
The authors think about that “it’s it’s nonetheless too early to know if this development might be sustainable or if the migration might be everlasting at a decrease degree than earlier than the epidemic”. They “lean extra in the direction of the latter,” says Lusa, “based mostly on the ‘Brexit’ end result.”
“In contrast to what occurred with the epidemic, the implications of the exit of the UK from the European Union are rising, which makes it troublesome for individuals to enter the place the place the Portuguese migrated” – particularly once they arrive in small numbers. certified.
Primarily based on the findings of the United Nations in 2022, the report refers to 2,631,559 immigrants in Portugal – individuals born in Portugal residing overseas, who represented, in 2019, about 26% of the inhabitants residing within the nation, being the eighth nation on this planet. and plenty of émigrés.
Globally, in the identical yr, there have been greater than 247 million individuals from different international locations, or 3.4% of the world’s inhabitants.
In 2021, of the 23 international locations which can be going to the vast majority of Portugal, greater than half (14) have been European.
The UK was the main vacation spot (12,000), adopted by Spain (8,000), Switzerland (8,000), France (6,000) and Germany (6,000).
The Portuguese signify 1.6% of the whole foreign-born inhabitants residing in the UKthe 4th nation on this planet the place essentially the most Portuguese reside.
Exterior of Europe, the principle international locations of Portuguese immigration are a part of the Group of Portuguese Language Nations (CPLP): Angola (1,708 in 2019) and Mozambique (1,000 in 2016, the final yr for which information is obtainable).
There was a “slight improve” in registrations in all international locations surveyed, aside from Australia (down 48.7%) and Macau (down 73.1%).
Males migrate greater than ladies and, when it comes to age, this group is made up of younger individuals.
France continues to be essentially the most populous nation in Portugalprimarily as a result of mass migration within the Sixties/70s, when there have been 598,000 individuals.
Switzerland has 207,000 individuals born in Portugal, adopted by the US of America (162,000), the UK (156,000), Brazil (138,000 in 2010), Canada (134,000) and Germany (115,000).
23% of those that immigrated to Brazil (in 2010), 9% of those that reside in France, and eight% in Cape Verde (2018) and Switzerland have been born in Portugal.
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