The Spanish population has broken the population record, reaching 48,345,223 million inhabitants, after growing during the second quarter of 2023 by 135,186 people, the majority born abroad, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
According to the provisional data of the Continuous Population Statistics (ECP), corresponding to July 1, 2023, they indicate that the estimated growth is 537,611 people during 2023 and that “almost all” of the new Spaniards were born abroad .
Spain’s population growth is due, in large part, to the increase in people born abroad. In total, the population born abroad was 8,457,886 people, greater than that of foreign nationality, due to the Spanish nationalization processes.
During the second quarter, the number of foreigners increased by 100,394 people, up to a total of 6,335,419 as of July 1, 2023. The population of Spanish nationality increased by 34,792 people. With this increase, a new maximum is reached in the historical population series.
The population grew in all the autonomous communities and also in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, although the greatest increases in relative terms were registered in the Balearic Islands (0.58%), Catalonia (0.51%) and the Community of Madrid ( 0.45%). On the contrary, the smallest increases were registered in Extremadura (0.01%), Asturias (0.03%), Ceuta (0.06%), Castilla y León (0.08%) and Galicia (0.09% ).
The main nationalities of immigrants during the second quarter of 2023 were Colombian (with 37,700 arrivals in Spain), Moroccan (21,500) and Spanish (19,900).
For their part, the most numerous emigrant nationalities were Moroccan (with 6,700 departures), Romanian (5,700) and Spanish (5,500).
