MADRID, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish population has increased in the last year by 507,548 inhabitants, 1.06%, reaching 48,592,909 inhabitants, reaching its maximum value in the historical series. This increase has been almost entirely due to the increase in people born abroad and the percentage of foreigners residing in Spain in 2023 (13.4%) has broken records.
In the last three months of 2023, the resident population in Spain increased by 85,870 people, confirming the upward trend of the last six quarters, growing at interannual rates of more than 1%, according to data from the Continuous Population Statistics that has been made public this Thursday the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Spain’s population growth was almost entirely due to the increase in people born abroad. This population -of 8,775,213 people- was larger than that of foreign nationality, due to the processes of acquiring Spanish nationality.
For its part, the number of foreigners increased by 72,504 people during the quarter, up to 6,491,502, and they now represent 13.4% of foreigners in Spain compared to 4.2% in the country in 2002. The population of Spanish nationality grew by 13,366 people.
Regarding foreign migrations, the main nationalities of immigrants during the quarter of 2023 were Colombian (with 42,600 arrivals in Spain), Venezuelan (27,300) and Moroccan (25,800). Peru (17,200), Italy (9,600), Argentina (7,900), Honduras (7,000), Ecuador (6,200) and Romania (5,700) are other nationalities of immigrants who arrived in Spain. For their part, the most numerous nationalities of the emigrants were Spanish (with 10,400 departures), Moroccan (9,500) and Romanian (8,100).
As for households, an increase of 45,560 has also been registered during the fourth quarter, up to 19,346,386 households, which represents an annual increase of 1.28%.
By autonomous communities and cities, during the fourth quarter of 2023 the population grew in all communities and cities, except in Andalusia and Extremadura. The largest increases occurred in the autonomous city of Melilla (0.64%), Community of Madrid (0.44%), Comunitat Valenciana (0.41%), Region of Murcia (0.23%), Canary Islands (0 .17%), Catalonia (0.17%), Ceuta (0.14%), Basque Country (0.14%); Balearic Islands (0.13%), Cantabria (0.11%), Cantabria (0.11%), Castilla-La Mancha (0.10%), Asturias (0.09%), Galicia (0.08%) , Castilla y León (0.07%), La Rioja (0.03%) and Aragón (0.01%).
