Indians in Portugal

Indians in Portugal
Total population
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]

  1. ^ Population of Overseas Indians.
  2. ^ "Uma comunidade indiana em Portugal diversa e dialogante na fé". SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). 5 May 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Relatório de Migrações e Asilo 2023" (PDF). AIMA (in Portuguese).
  4. ^ a b "Resident Foreign Population in Portugal - India". 2023.
  5. ^ "Immigration during 2019" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Immigration during 2020" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Immigration during 2021" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Immigration during 2022" (PDF).
  9. ^ a b "Embassy of India, Lisbon, Portugal : Indian Community in Portugal". Embassy of India, Lisbon, Portugal. Retrieved 25 September 2024.