Andalusia continues to be a welcoming land for immigrants looking for a future. Data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) confirm this. According to the latest recorded data, the region has welcomed more foreign population than it has left. In all 164,441 foreigners … They established residence in Andalusia, while 96,671 left the community in southern Spain for another foreign country.
In addition, the balance between regions of the same country is negative, since 5,858 more people left than arrived. In the end, Andalusia calculated a total of 61,912 immigrants. At the national level, net migration increased by 626,268 people, the third most positive in the last decade, exceeded in 2022 and 2023.
THE main nationalities Among the foreign immigrants were Colombians (with 168,122 arrivals in Spain), Moroccans (133,130) and Venezuelans (103,225). For their part, the most numerous nationalities of foreign emigrants were Moroccan (with 54,869 departures), Romanian (50,220) and Colombian (45,543).
Likewise, statistics show that 81,613 Spaniards born abroad Of those who immigrated to Spain, 15,107 were born in Cuba, 8,076 in Venezuela and 7,611 in Ecuador. In addition, of the 49,476 emigrants from Spain, 5,998 were born in Morocco, 5,181 in Ecuador and 4,533 in Colombia.
Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia reached the highest migration balances in 2024, thanks to net inflows from abroad and despite recording negative internal balances with other municipalities. All the main cities have positive migration balances, with the exception of Fuenlabrada, Sant Cugat del Vallés, FuengirolaTalavera de la Reina, Coslada, Cadiz And San Fernando. Meanwhile, Terrassa, Valdemoro and Two sisters are the cities with the highest internal balances.
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The INE also reveals that all autonomous communities had positive migration balances abroad in 2024. However, regarding internal balances (between communities), six had negative balances. Above all, Madrid (-12,993) and Catalonia (-6,437). Likewise, a total of 1,754,162 people changed municipalities in 2024, 2% more than the previous year, 700,640 left the province and 546,536 left the autonomous community or city.
In 2024, among the main immigration nationalities from abroad, those with the lowest level of completed studies were Morocco (59.0% of studies up to primary school), Romania (38.2%) and the United Kingdom (38.1%). For their part, those with a higher level of education were France (52.1% with higher education), Spain (38.4%) and Cuba (38.3%).
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