Portugal is currently the eighth EU country with the lowest proportion of foreign residents (4.1%), but, since 2017, more people have been arriving than leaving, and the percentage of children born to foreign mothers has been rising since 2015.

Portugal lost almost 300,000 residents between 2010 and 2018, although a reversal in that trend has been noted over the last 24 months.

This is according to data released by Pordata to mark International Migration Day.