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Immigration to Spain increased significantly in the beginning of the 21st century. In 1998, immigrants accounted for 1.6% of the population, and by 2009, that number had risen to over 12%. Until 2014, the numbers were decreasing due to the economic crisis, but since 2015, immigration to Spain has increased again, [2] especially after 2021. [3]
As of January 2021, there are 2,480,373 South Americans in Spain (all Latin American aside from 391), and 624,034 Central American or Caribbean people in Spain (all bar at most 60,505 being from Latin America). [1] Flows of migration have been dependent on the economic conditions in their countries of birth and in Spain.
Moroccans in Spain (Arabic: المغاربة في إسبانيا; Spanish: Marroquíes en España) formed 16.4% of the 4,549,858 foreigners in Spain as of 1 January 2017. [5] They are again the largest foreign group in Spain, after they were surpassed temporarily by Romanians in 2007.
[8] [9] Despite Spain's prolonged 2008-2015 economic crisis during which the country suffered years of massive unemployment and went from having the second highest immigration rate in the world to becoming a net-emigrant country, less than 30% of Spain's Latin American immigrants have left the country during this period. [10]
Romanians form the second largest group of foreigners in Spain, after Moroccans. [6] As of 2023, there were 630,795 Romanian citizens living in Spain. [7] Most of the immigration took place given economic reasons.
Spain cannot cope with irregular immigration without help from the European Union, the prime minister said on Thursday as the bloc seeks a deal on handling new arrivals less than a year before ...
Spain is home to a significant immigrant population, most of which has grown only very recently. Even right before turn of the 21st century, immigration to Spain was very small: immigrants were only 3% of the Spanish population in 1998, but 10 years later, immigrants formed 13% of the total population. Now, as of 2016, immigrants form over 9.8% ...
Members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team are laying the groundwork for the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization on the first day of his second term, according ...