In 2022 “118,000 immigrants entered Portugal, the highest figure since records began.”

Last year, 798,480 foreign citizens were living in Portugal legally or being regularized by the services, representing 7.6% of the total population.

In Portugal, the number of foreigners in 2022 was 800,000 – twice as many as ten years ago. The figures are from the study “Foreign population and migratory flows in Portugal”, which adds that one in three lives at risk of poverty and half a million people have been granted nationality in the last 15 years.

Last year, “118,000 immigrants entered Portugal, the highest figure since records began”, while 31,000 left, “23,000 less (-43%) than in the year marked by the highest number of departures, 2013”, says the study, published this Monday, following International Migration Day.

Thus, 76% of foreigners come from non-EU countries, which have an unemployment rate more than double the national average, earning an estimated “94€ less per month than the national average” in 2021.

Last year, 798,480 foreign citizens were living in Portugal legally or being regularized by the services, representing 7.6% of the total population.

“In the last 15 years, Portuguese nationality has been granted to around half a million foreigners (468,665), both resident and non-resident in Portugal,” says Pordata.

“The most represented nationalities in Portugal are Brazilian (29.3%), British (6%), Cape Verdean (4.9%), Italian (4.4%), Indian (4.3%) and Romanian (4.1%),” says the report.