Portuguese of Black African ancestry
| Total population | |
|---|---|
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(Unknown 149,982 retain one of PALOPs nationalities |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Algarve, Porto Metropolitan Area | |
| Languages | |
| Portuguese, Portuguese Creole, African languages | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism, Sunni Islam and Irreligious minorities |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
| Afro Brazilians, Cape Verdeans in Portugal, Angolans in Portugal |
(Unknown 149,982 retain one of PALOPs nationalities
Afro-Portuguese, Black Portuguese or African-Portuguese are Portuguese citizens or residents of Portugal with total or partial ancestry from any of the Black ethnic groups of Africa. Most of those perceived as Afro-Portuguese are descent of immigrants from the former Portuguese overseas provinces in Africa.
Alternatively, Afro-Portuguese may also refer to various populations of Portuguese descent, to various degrees, living throughout Africa, often speaking Portuguese or Portuguese creole, the Luso-Africans or Portuguese Africans, often also adopting Portuguese cultural norms, from which the Black Portuguese population in Portugal often derive.
Black Portuguese citizens are descendants or migrants issuing from the former Portuguese African colonies, (Angola, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde and Mozambique), even if residual numbers originate in other Sub-Saharan African countries. The colonies were abolished in 1951, transformed into overseas provinces by the Estado Novo regime and became integral parts of Portugal.
These communities arrived in Portugal after the independence of the African overseas provinces, in 1974–75, mainly after the Portuguese economic growth of the second half of the 1980s. They should not be confused with the population, overwhelmingly white Europeans born in Portugal, that "returned" from the same colonies immediately after their independence, the so-called retornados — Portuguese settlers and descendants of Portuguese settlers born in former African colonies who relocated to Portugal after independence and in second half of the 1980s.
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