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2.97
4.63
3.52
Vila Real
5.54
3.88
3.98
4.32
4.21
Viseu
10.59
4.73
5.39
6.37
3.26
Total mainland
78.41
83.12
74.51
79.51
76.50
Azores
6.14
11.17
19.30
12.23
21.21
Madeira
13.75
5.63
6.17
7.80
2.29
Unknown
1.70
0.08
0.01
0.46
0.00
TOTAL
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
Total number of emigrants
342,928
646,962
392,517
1,382,407
89,562
The flow from the mainland in the period 1950-88 represented 79 percent of the global flow. It was essentially directed toward Europe, particularly to France and Germany. It is possible to conclude from Table 10.3 that three regions of the mainland - the Lisbon interior, the Alentejo, and the Algarve - were poor sources of emigration. Together these three regions supplied only a total of 111,000 migrants between 1950 and 1988. This figure is lower than the total of any of the other five regions considered individually. The heaviest suppliers of the period were the coastal regions, always contributing more than half the total migrants. The northern coast alone provided 305,000 migrants (26 percent of all the mainland flow).
An analysis by periods shows that the most remarkable change is in the numbers leaving from the Lisbon coastal region. In the 1950s, this region had only 8,500 emigrants. The number rose to 64,000 and 60,000 during th...
