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2015
Inês Vidigal
According to data from the Office Fédéral de la Statistique, in 2014 15,221 Portuguese arrived in Switzerland, 4,818 less than in the previous year. The official statistical department accounted for a total of 161,149 foreign inflows into Swiss territory that year, with the Portuguese representing 9% of that total. +
Rui Pena Pires
Between 2013 and 2014 emigration stabilized at a high, with values exceeding 100 thousand outflows per year, numbers only observed before in the years 1960/70. Since the beginning of the century, emigration has almost tripled, from around 40,000 in 2001 to the current 110,000. +
Rui Pena Pires
In 10 years, between 2004 and 2013, Portugal, which had a positive net migration of almost 50 thousand individuals, became one of the European countries with the most negative net in absolute terms (-36 thousand individuals), according to data from the Eurostat on migration in the EU and EFTA countries. +
Inês Vidigal
The Portuguese population emigrated in Denmark, Norway and Sweden has been increasing since 2013, according to data recently published by the statistical agencies of the Scandinavian countries. This increase is a result of the growth in the number of entries of new Portuguese emigrants, especially in Norway and, to a lesser extent, in Denmark. +
Inês Espírito Santo & Cláudia Pereira
According to the data of Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), in 2012 about 18 thousand Portuguese arrived in France. Of these, only 14% had a higher education diploma, which made the Portuguese migration the less qualified, along with that of the Turks, of which, on that year, chose France as a destination. +

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