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 Permanent immigrants (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Permanent immigrants (No.) by Sex, Age group and Nationality (Group of countries); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Imigration annual estimates
First available period 2008
Last available period 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Age group
  • Nationality (Group of countries)
Concepts
  • PERMANENT IMMIGRANT:  A person (national or foreign) who, in a certain period of reference, entered the country with the intention of remaining here for one year or more, having previously resided abroad continuously for one year or more.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • NATIONALITY:  A person's legal citizenship at the moment of observation; account is taken of the nationality as in the identity card, passport, residence permit or the certificate of nationality. The persons who at the moment of observation have a pending process for the granting of nationality should be considered as having the nationality previously held.
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 18/06/2025


information presented in 6/7/2025