Demographics of Portugal

As of 2006 Portugal has 10.9 million inhabitants, of whom about 720,000 are foreigners. In the 2006 Census it had 10,956,117 inhabitants (51,7 emale, 48,3% male).Portugal is a fairly homogeneous country linguistically and religiously. Ethnically, the Portuguese people are mainly a combination of pre-Roman Iberian and Celtic tribes with a fair amount of Roman, Germanic (Visigoths and Suevi) and some minor elements, essentially Arab-Berbers, and Jews.Furthermore the demographic development is characterized by three trends: increasing longevity, decreasing birth rates and an increasing percentage of population from foreign extraction.
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