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The great majority of the Portuguese population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. Religious observance remains strong in northern areas, while the population of Lisbon and southern areas are generally less devout. Religious minorities include a little over 400,000 Protestants and Mormons [68] [69] [70] (3.84% of the total population).
There are also records of there being Black slaves in Lisbon in the Middle Ages. [7] By the mid-16th century, there were approximately 10,000 Africans in Lisbon, around 10% of the city's population. [8] By the end of the 16th century, the predominantly African neighborhood of Mocambo was established in the modern neighborhood of Madragoa . [9]
Lisbon in the 1570s had many black Africans among its population. In the second half of the 16th century, at the end of the Portuguese Age of Discovery and close to the apogee of the transcontinental Portuguese Empire, Lisbon was full of black people of African extraction who lived freely and naturally among the white locals of European ...
The largest Portuguese African population lives in Portugal numbering over 1 million with large and important minorities living in South Africa, Namibia and the Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea).The descendants of the Portuguese settlers who were ...
Lisbon's population has steadily dropped over the years due to people searching better accommodations for lower prices elsewhere in Greater Lisbon. A reverse trend has been observed in recent years, with the population increasing to 567,131 people in 2023, an all-time high since 2001 census and a 4.52% increase since the 2011 census.
Lisbon, with 545,143 inhabitants in the city proper, is the capital and the largest city in Portugal. Around 9.15 million (87%) Portuguese-born people live in the country, [ 182 ] out of a total population of 10.467 million.
The Euronext Lisbon is the major stock exchange and part of the pan-European group of stock exchanges Euronext. The PSI-20 is Portugal's most selective and widely known stock index. The OECD economic reports since 2018 show recovery. [174] [175] [176] Rents and house prices have skyrocketed in Portugal, particularly Lisbon, where rents jumped ...
A new census which plans to enumerate the people of Burma by ethnicity and race is planned to be held in 2014. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] The 1931 Burmese census generated a lot of anger from non-Burmese ethnic groups who were marked as Burmese on the census. [ 53 ]