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Number of Spanish residents continues to decrease
The population of Spain grows for the first time in five years

The population of Spain grows for the first time in five years

The number of census-registered internationals has increased by 3.2%

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Friday, 27 April 2018, 10:09

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The total number of residents registered in Spain on 1 January 2018 was 46,698,569, according to the analysis of official rolling town-hall-census data published on Tuesday by the government's National Institute of Statistics. Of this total, 41,979,151 people are Spanish nationals (89.9% of the total) and 4,719,418 are international (10.1% of the total).

In the last calendar year, 126,437 more people were registered by town halls as residents in Spain (an increase of 0.3%). This is the first population growth for five years. The expansion is down to immigration, given that during 2017, the number of registered Spanish nationals decreased by 20,174 people (0.05%) and that of internationals has increased by 146,611 (3.2%).

Among the latter group, those belonging to the European Union have increased by 2,709% people (0.2%) and those from elsewhere by 143,902 people (5.1%).

Over 2017, populations have diminished in nine autonomous communities. The rest have seen an increase. Madrid, Catalonia and the Canaries have experienced the largest population expansions, while Castilla y León, Extremadura and Galicia have suffered the largest losses.

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