La belle France remains the most popular destination for Portuguese émigrées, followed by Angola despite its despotic leadership with kleptomaniac tendencies.
In 2013 the emigration rate has been similar to the saddening outflow of the year before, with government estimated, bound to be on the low side, of between 100,000 and 120,000 Portuguese leaving their homeland.
Even José Cesário, the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, admitted that this is a "very high" rate of emigration.
His musings over two years of mass exodus were curious, "I have noted that there has been an increase. We have more or less constant numbers but they are quite high, the number of people leaving the country can not increase much because there are no jobs to go to."
José Cesário’s reason for the constant rate of departure of Portugal’s workforce, is that there are not enough jobs to go to in European countries, especially France, which is still the main destinations. This does not really address the root cause of why a generation of potential taxpayers is seeking to desert the homeland, at least until things get better.
Angola attracted another 25,000 thousand Portuguese immigrants but Brazil remains the problem area as it refuses to accept many Portuguese qualifications which hinders workers getting equivalent or desired jobs.
With respect to Mozambique the numbers arriving there from Portugal are the same as in 2012, an estimated 3,000 - 4,000. These are primarily construction workers as nothing is being constructed in Portugal.
