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The demographic boom accelerated in the late 1990s and early first decade of the 21st century due to immigration in parallel with a surge in Spanish economic growth. According to census data, the population of the city grew by 271,856 between 2001 and 2005. The Community of Madrid is the EU region with the highest average life expectancy at birth.
During the early 2000s, the mean year-on-year demographic growth set a new record with its 2003 peak variation of 2.1%, doubling the previous record reached back in the 1960s when a mean year-on-year growth of 1% was experienced. [11] In 2005 alone, the immigrant population of Spain increased by 700,000 people. [12]
Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in that year. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1 , pages 12 to 14, which cover population figures from the year 1500 divided ...
The Franco regime instead emphasized the city's history as the capital of formerly imperial Spain. [73] The intense demographic growth experienced by the city via mass immigration from the rural areas of the country led to the construction of abundant housing in the peripheral areas of the city to absorb the new population (reinforcing the ...
The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods. The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Preceding columns show actual history.
Municipalities of Spain. 2004 Madrid, capital of Spain Barcelona Valencia Seville Zaragoza Málaga Murcia Palma Las Palmas Bilbao Alicante Córdoba Valladolid Vigo Gijón L'Hospitalet de Llobregat A Coruña Vitoria-Gasteiz Granada Elche Santa Cruz de Tenerife Oviedo Badalona Terrassa. This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's ...
On 11 March 2004, three days before Spain's general elections and exactly 2 years and 6 months after the September 11 attacks in the US, Madrid was hit by a terrorist attack when Islamic terrorists belonging to an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell [113] placed a series of bombs on several trains during the morning rush hour, killing 191 people ...
As of 1 January 2024, the Community of Madrid has a registered population of 7,001,715 inhabitants, [62] and it is the most populated province and third most populated autonomous community in Spain. Population density is 829.62 hab/km 2 , much higher than the national average of 93.8 hab/km 2 .