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| Total population | ||||||||||
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| At least 325,000 people (about 2.94% of Portugal's population, possibly much higher) | ||||||||||
| Regions with significant populations | ||||||||||
| Portugal (Lisbon metropolitan area, Algarve, Porto Metropolitan Area) | ||||||||||
| Languages | ||||||||||
| Portuguese various African languages and Portuguese creoles | ||||||||||
| Religion | ||||||||||
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism, Afro-Portugueses religions, Protestantism, Sunni Islam and Irreligious minorities | ||||||||||
| Related ethnic groups | ||||||||||
| Afro-Brazilians, Cape Verdeans in Portugal, Angolans in Portugal, Bissau-Guineans in Portugal, Mozambicans in Portugal | ||||||||||
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Afro-Portuguese (Afro portugueses or Lusoafricanos), African-Portuguese (Portugueses com ascendência africana), or Black Portuguese are Portuguese people with total or partial ancestry from any of the Sub-Saharan ethnic groups of Africa.
Most of those perceived as Afro-Portuguese trace their ancestry to former Portuguese overseas colonies in Africa. Black Brazilians living in Portugal, as well as other Black people (e.g. Black Caribbean, Black Europeans) are also sometimes included, although no statistics are available, as it is illegal for the Portuguese State to collect data on ethnicity and race (similarly to what happens in other European countries such as France, Italy or Spain but contrary to the norm in the American Census).
Alternatively, Afro-Portuguese (Afro portugueses or Lusoafricanos) may also refer to various populations of Portuguese descent, to various degrees, living throughout Africa, often speaking Portuguese or Portuguese creole (see Luso-Africans or Portuguese Africans instead).