ALGARVE - Population
Population growth through immigration
The population of the Algarve has grown by 12.7% between 1991 and 2001. The proportion of young people (under 25) was around 28% in 2001 while the national average was 30%. In the ten years from 1991 to 2001, the share of this age category, as throughout Portugal, declined in the Algarve (-3.4 percentage points), although the drop is smaller compared to Portugal as a whole (-4.0 percentage points). The share of men in the region is slightly higher than at the national level, representing 49% of the population. The upward demographic trend is the result not only of natural growth but also a highly positive migratory balance - the best in Portugal over the last decade.
Despite this, the last few years have seen a birth rate slightly below the national average, although it is higher along the coast (11 per thousand) and substantially lower in the hills (7 per thousand). A large number of foreigners have chosen the Algarve as their normal domicile, most of them from the United Kingdom. The share of residents with foreign nationality is the highest of the country, as it represents 0.6% of the whole population of the region. Tourism brings in more than 3 million visitors each year, which means that the population triples at certain times of the year.
There has been an improvement of the mortality rate, which has decreased from 11.3 per thousand in 1990 to 4.9 per thousand in 1999 (under the national average).
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- Migration
- Life expectancy
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