Demographics of Portugal

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As of 2005 Portugal has 10.7 million inhabitants, of whom about 250,000 are foreigners. In the 2001 Census it had 10,356,117 inhabitants (51,7% female, 48,3% male).

Contents 1 Migration 2 Ethnic Minorities and persons with disabilities 3 Religion 4 Statistics 5 Most populated municipalities 6 See also 7 References

Portugal is a fairly homogeneous country linguistically and religiously.

Ethnically, the Portuguese people are mainly a combination of pre-Roman Iberian and Celtic tribes with some Romans, Germanic tribes and Moors.

Today, the Portuguese people is ethnically homogeneous. The country is characterized by moderate city, town or village cultural differentiation and there is virtually no regional differentiation, unlike other European countries. Portuguese is spoken throughout the country, with only the villages of Miranda de Douro's Mirandese dialect recognised as a locally co-official language.

[edit] Migration

Portugal, long a country of emigration, has now become a country of net immigration, and not just from the former Indian and African colonies. Today, many Eastern Europeans (especially Ukrainians, Moldavians, Romanians and Russians), as well as Brazilians, are making Portugal their home. There is a rapidly growing community of Chinese and a notable number of Macanese, who are descendants of Chinese and Portuguese settlers, with some Malays and Indians.

As of 2006^[1], there were 418,000 legal immigrants in Portugal, of which the most numerous communities originated in Cape Verde (68,000), Ukraine (43,000), Angola (34,000), Guinea-Bissau (25,000), UK (18,000), Spain (16,000), and Moldavia (15,000).

Of the UK immigrants, most are retired and live in the Algarve. In contrast, of the Spanish immigrants, around 9,000 live in the Greater Lisbon area, most as doctors and nurses.

[edit] Ethnic Minorities and persons with disabilities

Anti-racism laws prohibit and penalize racial discrimination in housing, business, and health services. Approximately 500,000 legal immigrants live in the country, representing approximately 5% of the population. The country also has a resident Roma population of approximately 50,000 people.

Discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment, education, access to health care, or the provision of other state services is illegal. The law mandates access to public buildings and to newly-built private buildings for such persons. test

[edit] Religion

Main article: Religion in Portugal

The great majority of the Portuguese population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. Religious observance remains somewhat strong in northern areas, with the population of Lisbon and southern areas generally less devout. Religious minorities include a little over 300,000 Protestants. There are also about 50,000 Muslims and 10,000 Hindus. Most of them came from Goa, a former Portuguese colony on the west coast of India (Some Muslims also came from former Portuguese African colonies with important Muslim minorities: Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe). There are also about 1,000 Jews. Portugal is also home to less than 10,000 Buddhists, mostly Chinese from Macau and a few Indians from Goa.

[edit] Statistics

Population of Portugal (INE, Lisbon)
Year	Total	Change	Year	Total	Change
1864	4,188,419	-	1950	8,510,240	10.2%
1890	5,049,729	20.5%	1960	8,851,240	4.0%
1911	5,969,056	18,2%	1970	8,648,369	-2.3%
1920	6,032,991	1,1%	1981	9,833,041	13.7%
1930	6,825,883	13.1%	1991	9,862,540	0.3%
1940	7,722,152	13.1%	2001	10,356,117	5.0%

Population:

10,048,232 (July 2000 est.)

10,102,022 (July 2003 est.)

10,524,145 (July 2004 est.)

10,566,212 (July 2005 est.)

10,605,870 (July 2006 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 16.8% (male 874,198; female 825,742)

15-64 years: 67.2% (male 3,326,957; female 3,461,425)

65 years and over: 16% (male 651,697; female 962,003) (2003 est.)

0-14 years: 16.6% (male 916,234/female 839,935)

15-64 years: 66.3% (male 3,468,844/female 3,538,779)

65 years and over: 17.1% (male 744,787/female 1,057,633) (2005 est.)

Population growth rate:

0.18% (2000 est.)

0.17% (2003 est.)

0.41% (2004 est.)

0.39% (2005 est.)

0.36% (2006 est.)

Birth rate:

11.49 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)

11.45 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)

10.9 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)

10.82 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)

10.72 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)

Death rate:

10.2 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)

10.21 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)

10.37 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)

10.43 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)

10.5 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)

Net migration rate:

0.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)

0.49 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003 est.)

3.57 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)

3.49 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)

3.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)

Sex ratio:

at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female

under 15 years: 1.09 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female

total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

6.05 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)

5.73 deaths/1,000 live births (2003 est.)

5.13 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.)

5.05 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)

4.98 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

total population: 77.7 years (2006 est.)

male: 74.43 years (2006 est.)

female: 81.2 years (2006 est.)

Total fertility rate:

1.47 children born/woman (2000 est.)

1.49 children born/woman (2003 est.)

1.46 children born/woman (2004 est.)

1.47 children born/woman (2005 est.)

1.47 children born/woman (2006 est.)

Nationality:

noun: Portuguese (singular and plural)

adjective: Portuguese

Religions: Roman Catholic 94%, Protestant (1995)

Languages: Portuguese. Also Mirandês (Mirandese language) in the area of Miranda de Douro.

Literacy:

definition:

age 15 and over can read and write

total population: 93.3%

male: 95.5%

female: 91.3% (2003 est.)

[edit] Most populated municipalities

Denotes the number of inhabitants in the municipality area; area is in km²; only for populations of over 100,000 inhabitants.

Rank	Municipality	Population	Land Area	Density
1	Lisbon	564,657	84.8	6,658
2	Sintra	409,482	319.2	1,283
3	Vila Nova de Gaia	288,749	170.8	1,690
4	Porto	238,954	41.3	5,785
5	Loures	199,231	169.3	1,177
6	Cascais	181,444	97.4	1,863
7	Amadora	176,239	23.8	7,405
8	Braga	170,858	183.2	933
9	Oeiras	168,475	45.7	3,687
10	Matosinhos	168,451	62.2	2,708
11	Almada	164,844	70.0	2,355
12	Seixal	164,715	95.5	1725
13	Gondomar	164,096	133,26	1,231
14	Guimarães	161,876	241.3	671
15	Coimbra	148,474	319.0	465
16	Odivelas	143,995	26.4	5,454
17	Santa Maria da Feira	142,295	215.1	661
18	Vila Franca de Xira	133,224	317.7	419
19	Vila Nova de Famalicão	131,690	201.7	653
20	Barcelos	123,831	378.9	327
21	Setúbal	120,117	171.9	699
22	Maia	120,111	83,70	1435
23	Leiria	119,870	564.7	212
24	Funchal	100,847	75.7	1332

[edit] See also

• Portugal
• Portuguese people

[edit] References