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Spain accepted 478,990 new immigrant residents in just the first six months of 2022 alone. During these months, 220,443 people also emigrated from Spain, leaving a record-breaking net migration figure of 258,547. [8] More women than men chose to move to Spain during 2022; this is due to higher rates of emigration from Latin America. [8]
Research has shown that most of the British population in Spain is poorly socially integrated into Spanish society. [6] [7] [8] A survey of 340 British migrants in the Province of Málaga, for example, found that one third rarely or never met Spanish people, apart from in shops and restaurants, and that 60 per cent did not speak Spanish well. [9]
As of January 2021, there are 2,480,373 South Americans in Spain (all bar 391 being Latin Americans) and 624,034 Central American or Caribbean people in Spain (all bar at most 60,505 being Latin Americans). [1] Flows of migration have been dependent on the economic conditions in their countries of birth and in Spain.
After several years of decline since a peak in 2010, the population of Spain born in Latin America has grown again since 2016. In 2019, 3,114,076 Spanish people born in South, Central America or the Caribbean (excluding Puerto Rico) had been legally residing in Spain for the last 12 months, compared to 2,340,247 in 2016 and 2,459,098 in 2010.
The integration of immigrants or migrant integration is the process of social integration of immigrants and their descendants in a society.. Central aspects of social integration are language, education, the labour market, participation, values and identification within the host country.
As of 2024, there were 8,915,831 foreign-born people in Spain, making up to 18.31% of the Spanish population [41] Of these, 6,581,028 (13.51%) didn't have Spanish citizenship. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] This makes Spain one of the world's preferred destinations to immigrate to , being the 4th country in Europe by immigration numbers and the 10th worldwide.
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.
Spain has always been the European country where the majority of Mexican emigrants to Europe go to, but since 2012, Mexican citizens are migrating more to other European countries, such as Germany, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom, following the economic crisis that Spain has undergone in recent years.