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Summary data:
“The provisional figures of the Observatory on Emigration estimate that in 2019 around 80 thousand Portuguese will have left our country, a number similar to that of 2018 and slightly less than the 85 thousand that occurred in 2017. However, INE's indicators made available in the Report show a slight drop in Portuguese emigration, indicating 77,040 exits in 2019, 4,714 less than the 81,754 registered in 2018 (-5.7%). There is another relevant element in INE's data: the percentage of nationals who left Portugal on a permanent basis (more than one year) continues to decline. In 2019, only 37% of the total Portuguese who left the country did so on a permanent basis, and for the first time since 2011, fewer than 30,000 people. By way of comparison, in 2013 the percentage of permanent exits was 42%, corresponding to more than 53,000 of the 128,000 nationals who left Portugal that year. The number of Portuguese living outside the country is a significant number, which is the result of several migratory waves, different in time, in the reasons that led to departure, in the geographies of destination and even in the economic, social and qualification profile of our emigrants. Moreover, the most recent waves of Portuguese emigration show a higher level of training, in line with the increase in the level of education in Portugal. The size and heterogeneity of our Communities is also one of our country's main assets. The importance of Portuguese Communities abroad is visible in all areas: in the affirmation of the Portuguese language as a language of international communication; in its economic relevance, visible, for example, in the fact that remittances from emigrants represent 1.7% of GDP; or even in the affirmation that our nationals achieve in the host countries, as attested by the hundreds of Portuguese and Lusodescendants elected or appointed to public offices abroad in 2019.”