From 2020 to 2022 around 205,909 people emigrated from Portugal, continuing the decrease in emigration recorded since 2014.
This means that 2.0% of the 2019 population left the country in the last 3 years but 60.2% did so temporarily.
The Brazilian community remains the largest immigrant population in Portugal, with over 230,000 people, a 13% increase since 2021.
Portugal has the eighth highest emigration rate as a proportion of population in the world, with about 25% of its population living abroad, data compiled by the Emigration Observatory in Lisbon shows.