Portuguese Brazilians

For the Portuguese dialect, see Brazilian Portuguese.

Portuguese Brazilians
Luso-brasileiros
Total population
5 million Brazilians (2.5% of the population) have recent Portuguese ancestry (at least one grandparent) and are eligible to obtain Portuguese citizenship.[1][2][3] Exact number of Brazilians with Portuguese ancestry unknown due to many having ancestry going back to Portuguese settlers.
Regions with significant populations
All of Brazil
Languages
Portuguese
Religion
Primarily Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups

Portuguese Brazilians (Portuguese: luso-brasileiros) are Brazilian citizens whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Portugal. Most of the Portuguese who arrived throughout the centuries in Brazil sought economic opportunities. Although present since the onset of the colonization, Portuguese people began migrating to Brazil in larger numbers and without state support in the 18th century.

According to Portuguese law, any Brazilian who has at least one Portuguese parent or grandparent is eligible to obtain Portuguese citizenship (with some restrictions, especially for grandchildren). Five million Brazilians (2.5% of the population) fall under this category[citation needed] . Many more people are of Portuguese descent however.

  1. ^ Alves-Silva, Juliana; da Silva Santos, Magda; Guimarães, Pedro E. M.; Ferreira, Alessandro C. S.; Bandelt, Hans-Jürgen; Pena, Sérgio D. J.; et al. (2000). "The Ancestry of Brazilian mtDNA Lineages". The American Journal of Human Genetics. 67 (2): 444–461. doi:10.1086/303004. PMC 1287189. PMID 10873790.
  2. ^ "Cinco milhões de netos de emigrantes podem tornar-se portugueses". noticiaslusofonas.com. 17 February 2006. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
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