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Portuguese Emigration Factbook 2024

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Inês Vidigal* e Sofia Vilhena*

In 2023, the number of departures from Portugal is estimated to have stabilised at around 70,000 individuals. This stabilisation is particularly noteworthy, as it occurred despite the sharp decline in emigration to the United Kingdom, which, until the Brexit process, had been the main destination for Portuguese emigrants. The 2024 edition of the Factbook provides updated data for 2023 (or the most recent year available) on total Portuguese emigration and flows to the main destination countries, as well as on emigrant remittances.

Date September 2025
Pages 83
ISBN
DOI  10.15847/CIESOEMFB2024
URI
Keywords Portuguese emigration, remittances.
Contents  List of tables, charts and maps. Signs, abbreviations and acronyms. Acknowledgments. Foreword and highlights. Total emigration. Emigration to top destination countries. Remittances. Methodological remarks. Glossary. Metadata. References. Webography.
Cite as Observatório da Emigração (2025), Portuguese Emigration Factbook 2024, Lisboa, Observatório da Emigração, CIES-IUL, ISCTE-IUL. DOI: 10.15847/CIESOEMFB2024

Chart 2.1 Portuguese permanent inflows in top destination countries, 2023 or last year available

Note [AGO] Data from visas concerning permanent emigration. 2021. [BEL] 2022.[MOZ] 2016. [VEN] 2011.

Source Chart by OEm, data from OEm, estimates based on destination countries permanent inflows data.

* Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

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