Statistics Portugal's revised series, now built from administrative records, counts 782,248 people who left to live abroad from 2021 to 2025, peaking at 188,871 in 2024. Arrivals still outnumber departures, but the gap narrowed sharply in 2025.
ANEM surveyed about 700 students at Portugal's 11 medical schools: 36 percent are considering working abroad, and most want shorter hours and better pay. Official data show 469 specialist training places went unfilled this year.
The government and unions have agreed a new legal regime for the network that teaches Portuguese to emigrants' children and at foreign universities. It will cost about 8.6 million euros.
Home Office data shows Skilled Worker grants to Portuguese nationals down 61 percent and Health and Care Worker grants down 77 percent in three years, while refusals fell and study visas held up.
The Secretaria de Estado das Comunidades Portuguesas (Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities) is preparing what officials are framing as an Erasmus-style programme for luso-descendentes — second- and third-generation members of the...
Sarmento defended IRS Jovem on Wednesday as a 'political choice' after the IMF recommended reversing it for budgetary cost and unclear impact on emigration. He also flagged support for raising restaurant VAT from 13%, calling the 2016 cut a 'gross error' worth €1 billion a year.
An estimated 850,000 Portuguese aged 15-39 live abroad, with university graduates the dominant share of the outflow. The government is now redesigning Programa Regressar and pivoting toward retention of the 25-35 cohort.
