Total population | |
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104,000 – 120,000 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Lisbon District · Faro District · Beja District · Santarém District · Setúbal District · Leiria District · Porto District | |
Languages | |
Portuguese · Konkani · Gujarati · Punjabi · English · Hindi | |
Religion | |
Christianity (Roman Catholicism) · Hinduism · Sikhism · Islam · Jainism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Konkani people, Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin, Desi, Nepali, Indian immigration to Brazil, Indians in Spain |
Indians in Portugal, including recent immigrants and people who trace their ancestry back to India, together number around 104,000 (2024 Indian Ministry of External Affairs data)[1] − 120,000 (2021 Indian embassy data data).[2] They thus constitute 0.98% – 1.13% of the total population of Portugal.
In the 6 years between 2018 and 2023 around 45,000 Indians have settled the country,[3][4][5][6][7][8] mostly in the Lisbon metropolitan area, Porto, the Algarve[9] and the Districts of Beja, Santarém and Leiria.[4]
The majority of Indians in Portugal trace their background to Goa, Daman and Diu, Gujarat and, more recently, from Punjab and Haryana.[9]