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Angola is the only non-European country in the 'top 10' of Portuguese preferences for emigration

Angola appears in ninth place on the list of the main emigration destinations for the Portuguese and is the only non-European country in the “top 10”, according to the 2021 Emigration Report, released this Wednesday.

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The latest data available in the case of Angola date back to 2019 and point to 1708 entries in that year, 202 fewer people than 2018, when 1910 Portuguese chose the country as their destination, taking into account the visas granted.

The value corresponds to the sum of the visas issued by the Angolan consulates in Porto and Lisbon: privileged, work (the most common), work by protocol, residence and others (study and temporary stay), but it is underestimated because it does not include the data from the Angolan consulate in Faro.

The report highlights that Portuguese emigration to Angola has dropped significantly since 2015: 42 percent less in 2016, 24 percent less in 2017, 36 percent less in 2018 and 11 percent less in 2019.

"The recessive effects of the oil price crisis and its consequences on the sectors of the labor market to which Portuguese emigration was heading" are the main causes pointed out in the document, and which "will have made themselves felt in full from 2016 ".

2009 was the year in which the most Portuguese arrived in Angola, a total of 23,787.

However, these 2009 figures are not directly comparable to those from 2012 to 2018 due to changes in the type of visas and the inclusion of visas issued by the Angolan Migration and Foreigners Service (in addition to those issued by Angolan consulates in Portugal), says the study.

In 2021, 127,366 people born in Portugal were registered at Portuguese consulates in Angola, making the country the 11th in the world with the most Portuguese citizens, right after Luxembourg, in a table topped by France.

Angola also appears in the list of the 10 countries with the highest volume of monetary transfers to Portugal, occupying the fourth position, with 251.82 million euros, after Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom.

According to data released by the Bank of Portugal, in 2021, the total amount received from remittances from emigrants was 3,677.76 million euros, corresponding to 1.7 percent of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

In 2021, the Directorate-General for Consular Affairs and Portuguese Communities received 71 requests for information from Portuguese people who intended to work abroad, on 18 countries on four continents, of which only two were related to Angola.

In this case, they were related to situations of labor exploitation/contractual breach (a total of nine out of the 71 requests for information).

The 2021 Emigration Report, which will be presented today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Lisbon, was prepared by the Emigration Observatory, a research center at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.

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