Slovakia is, of these four countries, the one with the lowest number of Portuguese entries between 2004 and 2019, always below 40 per year. Over the whole period, the inflows to this country varied between a minimum of 6 in 2004 and a maximum of 38 in 2009 and 2015.

Hungary has been the country with the highest number of Portuguese entries over the last 19 years. Between 2000 and 2007, inflows are very low and with large annual fluctuations. From 2008 onwards, the country enters a growth phase until 2017 - the year in which the maximum value of the series under analysis is reached, with 108 entries. In the following years there is a small decrease, but inflows remain above 100 per year.

In Poland, the annual inflows of Portuguese until 2014 are very small, with an average of 10 annual inflows. Between 2016 and 2019, the number of Portuguese arriving in Poland grew exponentially to more than 49 annual entries. The years with the lowest number of entries were 2000 and 2001 (2) and the year with the highest number of entries was 2019 (83).

The Czech Republic was the second country with the most Portuguese entries, out of the four under review. Of these countries, it has the most stable series and the most sustained growth. The year with the lowest inflows was 2006 (7) and the year with the most inflows was 2016 (129).

These values show that these Eastern European countries are still unattractive to Portuguese emigrants.

Links 

Slovakia: https://slovak.statistics.sk/

Hungary: http://www.ksh.hu/?lang=en

Poland: https://stat.gov.pl/en/

Czech Republic: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database

Cite as Vidigal, Inês (2020), “Recent Portuguese emigration to Eastern Europe", Observatório da Emigração. http://observatorioemigracao.pt/np4EN/7747.html