Portuguese in Sweden (
Swedish : Svensksportugiser ) are citizens and residents of Sweden who are of
Portuguese descent.
Portuguese Swedes are Portuguese-born citizens with a
Swedish citizenship or Swedish-born citizens of Portuguese
ancestry or
citizenship .
There are approximately 5,033
Portuguese people living in Sweden as of 2022. The Portuguese represent 0.05% of the
country's population .
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History
Map showing the location of the two countries within Europe
The Portuguese community in the
country has experienced considerable growth, especially after
Brexit . Portuguese emigrants are in fact leaving the United Kingdom for
Nordic countries : most of them are
highly qualified and aged between
20 and 40 , looking for better
quality of life and economic stability.
[3] The influx of Portuguese migrants towards the country is steadily increasing and there are 5 Portuguese associations in the country.
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Both countries are
EU members.
In recent years many
Portuguese international footballers have moved to Sweden to play for
Swedish clubs . In 2023 these included:
Ieltsin Camões (
IK Brage ),
Filipe Sissé (
Varbergs BoIS ),
Mamadu Djau (
Örebro ),
Luís Canina (
IFK Luleå ) and
Kevin Cerqueira (
BK Häcken ).
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Remittances
The Portuguese community in Sweden retains strong ties with its homeland and, between 2000 and 2021, it has sent about 162.5 million
euros (
€ ) to Portugal in remittances. In the same timeframe,
Swedes in Portugal (numbering around 5,700 individuals)
[14] have sent approximately 19.81 million euros to Sweden.
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Portuguese language
Engraving of the walls and castle of the city of
Lagos , in the
Algarve region, in
Portugal .
National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet) the
Portuguese are part of a wider Portuguese-speaking community in Sweden, comprising around 1,920 people from
PALOP countries (the majority being from
Angola or from
Cape Verde ),
Timor-Leste and
Macau and around 20,000
Brazilians .
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People from
CPLP countries thus number around 27,000 accounting for 0.25% of the
population of Sweden .
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The immigrant community of people coming from
CPLP countries in Sweden is the largest found among the
Nordic countries : in
Finland there are a little more than 5,000
CPLP nationals (0.09% of the
country's population ),
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[20] in
Denmark there are around 11,000
CPLP nationals (0.19% of the
country's population )
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[23] while in
Iceland there are around 2,000
CPLP nationals (0.52% of the
country's population ),
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[28] and in
Norway there are around 25,300
CPLP nationals (0.38% of the
population ).
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Notable people
See also
References
^
"Portugueses na Suécia" .
^
"Observatório da Emigração" . observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^ Ferreira, Marta Leite (2023-06-28).
"Novos emigrantes portugueses trocam o Reino Unido pelos países nórdicos: "Parece uma redistribuição", diz Observatório" . PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^ Cruz, Luís (2023-03-07).
"Comunidade portuguesa na Suécia continua a crescer" . BOM DIA (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^ webmaster (2022-03-08).
"Entrada de portugueses na Suécia cresce 27% em 2021" . Diáspora Lusa (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^ Brazão, Isabel.
"Aumentou a entrada de portugueses na Suécia" . ccmm.madeira.gov.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^
"QUEM SOMOS" . FAPS (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^ FF, Skellefteå (2021-08-26).
"HERR: Ieltsin Camoes klar för SFF" . Skellefteå FF (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-24 .
^
"IK Brage" .
^ GB, O. Golo (2022-08-18).
"FILIPE SISSÉ ESTREOU-SE PELO VARBERGS" . O GOLO GB (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-24 .
^ Kurt, Mattias (2023-01-16).
"Örebro Syrianska värvar Mamadu Djau" . Örebro Syrianska IF (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-24 .
^
"Luis Correia är klar för IFK Luleå" (in Swedish). 2023-01-26. Retrieved 2023-07-24 .
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"Häcken" .
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"Sefstat" (PDF) .
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"Observatório da Emigração" . observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-28 .
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"Population by country of birth, age and sex. Year 2000 – 2022" . Statistikdatabasen . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Brasileiros no exterior" (PDF) .
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"Statistics Sweden" . Statistiska Centralbyrån . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Finnish citizens with dual nationality by Second nationality, Year, Sex, Age and Information" . PxWeb . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Population 31.12. by Region, Nationality, Age, Sex, Year and Information" . PxWeb . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Population figures" . www.dst.dk . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Statistikbanken" . www.statbank.dk . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Dinamarca" . Portal Diplomático (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Population by country of birth, sex and age 1 January 1998–2022" . PxWeb . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^
"Brasileiros no exterior" (PDF) .
^
"Observatório da Emigração" . observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Foreign citizens gaining Icelandic citizenship by former citizenship, sex and age 1991–2021" . PxWeb . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Statistics Iceland: Overview" . Statistics Iceland . Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^
"Immigrants in Norway" .
^
"Brasileiros no exterior" (PDF) .
^ Pisco, Paulo (2020-03-13).
"Os portugueses na Noruega" . BOM DIA (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
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"Statistics Norway" . SSB . 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2023-07-23 .
^ Gonçalves, Mauro.
"A vida de uma "dancing queen": a rainha Silvia da Suécia faz 75 anos" . Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-24 .
^
"Hans i Curitiba" (PDF) .
^ Samuelsson, Elin (2020-10-30).
"Allt om drottning Silvias bortglömda familj" . www.allas.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-24 .
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"Det blåa blodet blir allt tunnare inom kungafamiljen" .