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Portuguese Emigration Factbook 2020

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Inês Vidigal e Carlota Moura Veiga *

In 2019, after five years of continued decline, Portuguese emigration shows signs of tendency to stabilise at a level of around 75,000 departures per year. The growth recorded between 2018 and 2019, from 75 to 80,000 exits, was essentially due to a greater number of Portuguese entering the United Kingdom, in what appears to be a concentration of emigration decisions to that country motivated by fears of possible blockages once Brexit was completed. The 2020 edition of the Factbook includes data updated to 2019 (or last year available) on total Portuguese emigration and to the main destination countries, as well as on emigrants' remittances.

Date February 2021
Pages 96
ISBN 978-972-8048-61-7
DOI  10.15847/CIESOEMFB2020
URI  http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22258
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 (2021), Portuguese Emigration Factbook 2020, Lisboa, Observatório da Emigração, CIES-IUL, ISCTE-IUL. DOI: 10.15847/CIESOEMFB2020

Map 2.1 Portuguese permanent inflows in top destination countries, 2019 or last year available

Note [AGO] Data from visas concerning permanent emigration. [BEL] 2018. [FRA] 2018. [IRL] 2015. [ITA] 2018. [MOZ] 2016. [VEN] 2011.

Source Map by OEm, data from: [AGO] Consulates of Angola in Portugal (Lisbon and Oporto); [AUT] Statistics Austria; [BEL] Eurostat, Statistics Database, Population and Social Conditions; [BRA] Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego; [CAN] Citizenship and Immigration Canada; [DEU] Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland; [DNK] Denmark Statistik; [FRA] Institut Nacional de la Statistique et des Études Économiques; [ITA] Eurostat, Statistics Database, Population and Social Conditions; [LUX] Le Portail des Statistiques du Luxembourg; [MOZ] Direção Geral dos Assuntos Consulares e Comunidades Portuguesas (DGACCP) based on data from Mozambique Ministry of Labor; [NLD] Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek; [NOR] Statistics Norway; [ESP] Instituto Nacional de Estadística; [CHE] Office Fédéral de la Statistique; [GBR] Department for Work and Pensions; [USA] US Department of Homeland Security; [VEN] Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

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

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