Portugal now has almost 800,000 foreign residents

The foreign resident population in Portugal increased last year for the 7th consecutive year, totalling 781,915 citizens, with the Brazilian community still the largest and the fastest growing.

On the basis that the country has only a little more than 10 million inhabitants, foreigners are steadily approaching the point where they will make up 10% of the population.

At the end of 2022 in Portugal were living:

• Brazilians - 239,744
• UK - 45,218
• Cabo Verde - 36,748
• India - 35,416
• Italy - 34,039
• Angola - 31,761
• France - 27,512
• Ukraine - 25,445
• Nepal - 23,839
• Guinea-Bissau - 23,737

Most of the new permits were allocated to Brazilians (43,313), followed by Indians (7,414) and Italians (6,977), Angolans (6,939) and Bangladeshi (6,153).

The most relevant reasons for granting new residence permits were professional activity (51,525) and family reunification (27,054).

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