PT · 2015 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Portugal, 2015
In 2015, Portugal's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 2.5% compared to 2014, reaching 29,021.
Portugal accounts for 1.5% of the EU-27 total of 1,992,551.
Portugal ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 21.6% (from 37,010 in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.