Portugal recorded 1.57 million immigrants in 4 years

The National Statistics Institute (INE) revised immigration data for 2021 to 2024 to 1,575,409 arrivals — an increase of nearly 944,000 movements over previous estimates. The upward revision stems from a new methodology using administrative records from tax, social security, and AIMA rather than surveys, with 2022 emerging as the peak year with 495,979 arrivals. Foreign nationals accounted for 77.2 percent of the total (1,215,708), of whom 90.8 percent came from outside the European Union, and over half of all arrivals were young adults aged 20 to 30.