Foreigners constitute 16,6% of Madrid’s population
April 1, 2008
The amount of foreigners living in Spain has virtually quadrupled throughout the last 5 years. No other European country has experienced such a speedy increase in its amount of immigrants.
Madrid has 1.060.606 foreigners registered with a “permiso de residencia” in January this year; 16,62% of the region’s total population, with an average age of 30 and mostly coming from Latin America (47%) and Europe (35%).
This study, carried out by the “Consejería de Inmigración y Cooperación” also concludes that most foreigners choose to live in the capital (548.648) and Alcalá de Henares (41.705).
Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, councillor of “Inmigración y Cooperación”, furthermore informs that between January last year and January this year 59.548 new immigrants were given papers.
The highest influx of foreigners has come from Rumania, with 195.676 people. These are followed by the Ecuadorians (145.352), Moroccans (85.626), Colombians (72.940), Bolivians (60.797), Peruvians (57.622), and Chinese (35.412), Bulgarian (31.720), Dominican (31.616) and Polish (27.383).
The study furthermore reveals that amongst the Latin American immigrants prevail the women and amongst the Asian and African, the men.
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Written by Sophie · Filed Under Culture & Society
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