| Group: | Danish Portuguese |
| Native Name: | |
| Flag: |   |
| Total: | 4,476[1] |
| Langs: | Danish, Portuguese |
| Rels: | Predominantly Christianity (Roman Catholicism), Irreligion |
| Related: | Other Portuguese people, Portuguese in Finland, Portuguese in Iceland, Portuguese in Norway, Portuguese in Sweden |
Portuguese in Denmark (da|portugisisk i Danmark) are citizens and residents of Denmark and its dependencies who are of Portuguese descent.
Portuguese in Denmark (also known as Portuguese Danes/ Danish-Portuguese Community or, in Portuguese, known as Portugueses na Dinamarca / Comunidade portuguesa na Dinamarca / Luso-dinamarqueses) are the citizens or residents of Denmark whose ethnic origins lie in Portugal.
Portuguese Danes are Portuguese-born citizens with a Danish citizenship or Danish-born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship.
There are approximately 4,476 Portuguese people living in Denmark as of 2021. They represent 0.08% of the country's population.[2] [3]
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.[4] [5] Portuguese emigration towards Denmark didn't slow down even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
There are also Portuguese living in territories of the Danish Realm other than metropolitan Denmark: in 2023 there were 8 Portuguese-born residents in Faroe Islands and 10 in Greenland.[7] [8]
In recent years many Portuguese international footballers have moved to Denmark to play for Danish clubs. In 2023 these included: Carlos Ferreira (in the Faroe Islands, Skála ÍF), André Monteiro (Vejle), Anderson Rosso de Sena (Brabrand), Pedro Ferreira (AaB) and Diogo Gonçalves (Copenhagen).[9] [10] [11]
The Portuguese community in Denmark retains strong ties with its homeland and, between 2000 and 2021, it has sent approximately 92.84 million euros (€) to Portugal in remittances. In the same timeframe, Danes in Portugal (numbering around 1,600 individuals)[12] have sent approximately 11.13 million euros (€) to Denmark.[13]
As of today, the Portuguese are part of a wider Portuguese-speaking community in Denmark, comprising around 720 people from PALOP countries (the overwhelming majority being from Angola or from Mozambique), Timor-Leste or Macau and 5,800 Brazilians.[14] People from CPLP countries thus number around 11,000 people, accounting for 0.19% of the population of Denmark. Despite being small, the immigrant community of people coming from CPLP countries in Denmark is quite visible when compared to the ones in other Nordic countries: in Finland there are a little more than 5,000 CPLP nationals (0.09% of the country's population),[15] [16] in Iceland there are around 2,000 CPLP nationals (0.52% of the country's population),[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] while in Norway there are around 25,300 CPLP nationals (0.38% of the population)[22] [23] [24] and in Sweden 26,700 (0.25% of the population).[25] [26] [27]