This report had the support of the Office of the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities (GSECP - Gabinete do Secretário de Estado das Comunidades Portuguesas) and the Directorate General for Consular Affairs and Portuguese Communities (DGACCP - Direção Geral dos Assuntos Consulares e das Comunidades Portuguesas). The Emigration Observatory and the Migra Network were the entities responsible for its elaboration, within the framework of CIES-IUL of the ISCTE-IUL. Partially integrated into the seventh annual report on Portuguese emigration under the responsibility of the Office of the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities.

Date   March 2026
Pages  312
ISBN  
DOI  10.15847/CIESOEMRE122026
URI  
Keywords  Portuguese emigration, remittances, flows, stocks
Contents  Index of tables. Index of graphs. Index of maps. Acknowledgements. Technical note. Introduction. Total emigration and framework indicators. Emigration to major destination countries, 2024. Emigration to major destination countries, time series 2000-2024. Remittances from emigrants. Metadata. References. Webliography.
Cite as  Vidigal, Inês, Cláudia Pereira, Joana Azevedo, Sofia Vilhena and Rui Pena Pires (2026), Emigração Portuguesa 2025: Relatório Estatístico, Lisboa, Observatório da Emigração e Rede Migra, CIES-IUL, ISCTE-IUL. DOI: 10.15847/CIESOEMRE122026

 

Chart 2.3      Entries of Portuguese nationals, main destination countries for emigration, change from 2023 to 2024 or over the last two years for which data is available

Note Only changes from 2023 to 2024 are shown; where data for 2023 is not available, changes from 2022 to 2023 are shown (marked with *).

Source Graph produced by the Emigration Observatory based on data from: [DEU] Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland; [AGO] Consulados de Angola em Portugal (Lisboa e Porto); [AUS] Department of Immigration and Citizenship and Border Protection; [AUT] Statistics Austria; [BEL] Statbel; [BRA] Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego; [CAN] Citizenship and Immigration Canada;  [DNK]  Denmark Statistik;  [ESP] Instituto Nacional de Estadística; [USA] US Department of Homeland Security; [FRA] Institut Nacional de la Statistique et des Études Économiques;  [NLD] Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek; [ITA] Eurostat, Statistics Database, Population and Social Conditions; [LUX] Le Portail des Statistiques du Luxembourg; [MAC]  Direção dos Serviços de Estatística e Censos, Governo da RAE de Macau; [NOR] Statistics Norway; [GBR] Department for Work and Pensions; [SWE] Statistics Sweden; [CHE] Office Fédéral de la Statistique.

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