Foreign residents with regular residence status; million people, 2015–2024.
Foreign residents with regular status in Portugal are tracked from 2015 through 2024. The series counts people recorded by the national migration authority rather than all foreign-born residents regardless of legal status. The total rose from 388,731 in 2015 to 1,543,697 in 2024. That was an increase of 1,154,966 people and made the 2024 total almost four times the 2015 level.
Source 1: Foreign population with regular residence: total and by sex
Publisher: PORDATA
Dataset/table: PORDATA Statistics
Units: persons
Date checked: 2026-07-17
Evidence: Supports foreign population with regular residence status in Portugal for every year in 2015–2024.
The series is not a count of all foreign-born people regardless of legal status.
Annual values count foreign residents with regular residence status in Portugal.
Every annual value uses the same residence-status definition, person unit and national scope.
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