Ka cika wannan jumlar: Bayan juyin juya hali na shekara ta 1910 ya kawar da sarautar sarauta, aka kafa Jamhuriyar Portuguese ta Farko mai dimokuraɗiyya amma ba ta da kwanciyar hankali, daga baya aka sauya ta da mulkin kama karya na "Estado Novo". An dawo da dimokiradiyya bayan Juyin Juya Halin Carnation (1974), wanda ya kawo karshen Yakin mulkin mallaka na Fotigal. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, an ba da 'yancin kai ga kusan dukan ƙasashen da ke ƙetare. Ƙungiyar
mika Macau ga China (1999) ya nuna ƙarshen abin da za a iya la'akari da ɗaya daga cikin daular mulkin mallaka mafi tsawo a tarihi.