It’s bleak reading. Of the 128.000 Portuguese who left their home country in search of a better life and conditions last year, more than half were under 30 – and surprisingly there were even some over 75s who felt ‘enough was enough’.
Of the 1890 over-75s who left Portugal in 2013, most were only gone for three months. Only 57 are understood to have decided to make emigration permanent.
Even so, the data compiled in the first government report on emigration shows that numbers were up by 53.000 from 2012, with more than 53.796 young people among the mass exodus.
The ‘favourite destiny’ of emigrés continues to be the UK.
