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Portuguese Emigration Factbook 2021

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Inês Vidigal e Carlota Moura Veiga *

In 2020 Portuguese emigration fell abruptly, to values similar to those observed at the beginning of the 21st century, of around 45,000 departures. The bulk of the fall was not the result of an accentuation of previous trends associated with the socioeconomic dynamics of the country, but the effect of two extreme events and of external origin: the covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.The 2021 edition of the Factbook includes data updated to 2020 (or last year available) on total Portuguese emigration and to the main destination countries, as well as on emigrants' remittances.

Date March 2022
Pages 100
ISBN 978-972-8048-74-7
DOI  10.15847/CIESOEMFB2021
URI  http://hdl.handle.net/10071/25330
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 (2022), Portuguese Emigration Factbook 2021, Lisboa, Observatório da Emigração, CIES-IUL, ISCTE-IUL. DOI: 10.15847/CIESOEMFB2021

Chart 1.2 OEm Estimates of the outflows of Portuguese emigrants, 2001-2020

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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