Following the significant 19.8% decline in Portuguese arrivals in Iceland recorded in 2024, 2025 saw a slight recovery, with an increase of 14.8%, in contrast to total immigrant arrivals, which decreased by 5.6%. Between 2000 and 2025, the number of Portuguese entering Iceland registered its minimum in 2002 (seven entries) and its maximum in 2004 (520 entries). Portuguese emigration to Iceland started abruptly in 2004, representing in that year more than one fifth of the foreigners' arrivals into the country. Since then, the variations in the volume of immigration in that country have accompanied the variations in the Icelandic economy: higher entries in the years of the economic and financial boom in the beginning of the century, retraction with the financial crisis of 2008 and recovery in line with the economic upturn initiated in 2011.
Cite as Vidigal, Inês (2026), “Slight increase in Portuguese emigration to Iceland in 2025”, Observatório da Emigração. http://observatorioemigracao.pt/np4EN/10754.html
