Cape Verdeans in Portugal explained

Group:	Cape Verdeans in Portugal
Population:	By ancestry: 200,000^[1] By birth: 68,144
Popplace:	Lisbon, Algarve, Azores, Madeira, Porto
Langs:	Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole
Rels:	Roman Catholicism
Related:	Afro-Portuguese

In 1995, it was estimated that there were 50,000 people of Cape Verdean descent or national origin in Portugal.^[2] By 2000, this estimation rose to 83,000 people, of which 90% resided in Greater Lisbon."^[3] In 2008, Portugal’s National Statistics Institute estimated that there were 68,145 Cape Verdeans who legally resided in Portugal. This made up "15.7% of all foreign nationals living legally in the country."^[4]

Notable people

• Germano Almeida, writer
• Ângela Maria Fonseca Spínola
• Cláudio Aguiar
• Jorge Andrade
• Hernâni Borges
• Nelson Évora
• Arlindo Gomes Semedo
• José Gonçalves
• Sara Tavares
• Néné da Luz
• Nélson Marcos
• Sandro Mendes
• Vítor Moreno
• Nani
• Nilton Fernandes
  • Pedro Pelé Rolando
• Manuel Estêvão Sanches
• Ernesto da Conceição Soares
• Marco Soares
  • Edson Rolando Silva Sousa José Veiga
• Nélson Veiga
• João Gomes, basketball player
• Lura, singer
• Oceano da Cruz
• Renato Sanches
• Yorgan De Castro, mixed martial artist
• Márcio Fernandes
• Cristiano Ronaldo

See also

• Cape Verde–Portugal relations

External links

• Central Intelligence Agency. "Portugal." The World Factbook. Retrieved October 18, 2007.

Notes and References

1. http://www.asemana.cv/article.php3?id_article=28328 A Semana. "Cape Verdeans make up 15.7% of all foreigners in Portugal." Retrieved January 20, 2008.
2. http://www.umassd.edu/SpecialPrograms/CaboVerde/wwpopest.html 1995 Cape Verdean Diaspora Population Estimates
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20080229205609/http://www.iss.co.za/index.php?link_id=21&slink_id=1774&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3 Marc-Montclos, Antoine Pérouse de. " The Political Value of Remittances: Cape Verde, Comores, and Lesotho - Diasporas, Remittances and Africa South of the Sahara - A Strategic Assessment." Institute for Security Studies. Retrieved October 18, 2007.
4. http://www.asemana.cv/article.php3?id_article=28328 A Semana. "Cape Verdeans make up 15.7% of all foreigners in Portugal." Retrieved January 20, 2008.