Portuguese choosing UK to emigrate By TPN/Lusa, in News · 24-12-2020 18:00:00 · 2 Comments
The United Kingdom was the country to which the most Portuguese emigrated in 2019, accounting for about 25,000 of the 80,000 departures from Portugal in that period, followed by Spain and Switzerland, according to the latest Emigration Report.
Prepared by the Observatory of Emigration, a research center of ISCTE (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), the document reports a “stabilization of the volume of Portuguese emigration”, indicating that in 2019 around 80,000 Portuguese left Portugal, a number similar to the year previous and slightly lower than the 85,000 that left in 2017.
In 2019, the number of Portuguese entries in the United Kingdom totalled 24,593, 30.3 percent more than in 2018, an increase that “was more