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A United Nations (UN) report reveals that Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking country that takes in the most refugees, Portugal receives the most remittances from emigrants and Mozambique has seen the biggest increase in foreigners in two years.
The report by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, consulted by the Lusa news agency, indicates that Brazil is hosting 96,000 refugees, the highest number in the nine countries of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP).
In 2018, Portugal received remittances worth 4,773.4 million dollars (4,331.3 million euros) from its emigrants, far more than any other Portuguese-speaking country.
Since 2017, the biggest increase in migrants has been seen in Mozambique, which has added 88,000 foreigners.
Guinea-Bissau is the country with the youngest immigrant population, with an average of 24.7 years. It is also the Lusophone country that has seen the biggest drop in emigrant remittances since 2016.
The countries have very similar levels of male and female migrants, except for Equatorial Guinea, where only 22.9% of foreigners are women.
With 888,200 foreigners registered in Portugal, which means 8.7% of the population and an increase of 8,000 people since 2017, the UN estimates that around 1,700 refugees are also living in the country.
The average age of migrants currently in Portugal is 43.3 years, with the overwhelming majority (83.21% of migrants) aged between 20 and 64 and only 7.21% under the age of 19.
According to the report, last year Portuguese emigrants sent remittances worth 4,773.4 million dollars (4,331.3 million euros) to Portugal. The figure has risen by around 172.5 million euros since 2016.
Brazil is home to 71,000 more migrants than two years ago, and now has 807,000 people born outside the country. However, this figure does not include refugees and asylum seekers, of whom 96,000 are in this situation.
The average age of migrants is 40.2 years and 21.4% of them are over 65.
In 2018, Brazil received 2,933.6 million dollars from its emigrants, 193 million more than three years ago.
Angola has seen an increase of 31,000 migrants since 2017, and is now home to 669,500 people born in another country, including 71,300 refugees.
Almost all migrants come from sub-Saharan Africa and the average age of migrants is 33.6 years.
The document indicates that remittances from Angolan emigrants to the country are in the order of 1.5 million dollars in 2018, although the last report showed 11 million dollars in 2016.
Cape Verde receives 15,700 migrants, with an average age of 40 and, in this report, no refugees. The number remained almost the same as in 2017 (15,300 people born in another country). More than 87% of the migrants are aged between 20 and 64.
In 2018, the island country received 242.6 million euros from emigrants, an increase of 24.6 million compared to 2016.
Guinea-Bissau currently receives 26,900 people born in another country, almost all of them in sub-Saharan Africa, of whom 11,200 are refugees and asylum seekers (41.7% of migrants).
The age of foreigners in Guinea-Bissau is an average of 24.7 years, with 41% of migrants under the age of 19 and 54.5% between the ages of 20 and 64.
Last year the country received 26.5 million dollars from emigrants, a drop of 12.5 million since 2016.
Equatorial Guinea has 227,600 citizens of other nationalities, around 16.81 per cent of the country's total population. The foreigners are almost all (97.2%) between 20 and 64 years old and only 22.9% of them are women.
There is no data on remittances from emigrants to Equatorial Guinea.
With 23,700 refugees, Mozambique has 334,700 migrants, 87,700 more than two years ago. The average age is 30.7 years.
With an increase of 156 million dollars in emigrant remittances since 2016, Mozambique received a total of 354 million in 2018.
São Tomé and Príncipe currently has 2,200 citizens of other nationalities, with a 95% probability that they were born in other sub-Saharan African countries. The figures are practically the same as in 2017, when no refugees were registered.
The country will have received 17.1 million dollars from emigrants in 2018, one million more than in 2016.
Timor-Leste is home to 8,400 people born in other countries, with an average age of 32.4 years.
Of the citizens born in other countries and residing in Timor-Leste, only 39.6% are women, a decrease of ten percentage points compared to 2017.
Last year, the country received 20 million dollars more from emigrants than in 2016, indicating 88.5 million dollars for 2018.