“Mainly, the Spanish economy is growing due to the tremendous growth of the population in the last three years. 1.9 million were born abroad »

The population in Spain never stops growing. According to the latest data from the continuous population statistics of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the population of our country reaches 49.9 million people.

During the third quarter of 2025 population … Spanish Increased by 105,488 peopleAllowing Spain to reach the maximum in the historical series. The National Institute of Statistics indicates that the population growth in our country is due to an increase in the number of people born abroad, as well as a decrease in the number of people born in Spain.

Specifically, the foreign-born population reaches 9.8 million people due to Spanish citizenship processes.

On the other hand, regarding birth statistics, in 2024 in Spain, 318,005 boys and girls were born. As the National Institute of Statistics confirms, 81,339 of these births were to children of foreign motherswhich sets the price at 25.6% of the total. The number rose by just over one point since in 2023 it represented 24.4% of the total.

Luis Garricano explains why the Spanish economy is performing so well

But this data also has importance from economic as well as social aspects. This was stated by economic expert Luis Garricano in a brief message on his personal page on the social networking site “X”.

Garicano believes that the “tremendous” population growth is responsible for the good performance of the Spanish economy. The economist responds by commenting on engineer John Gonzalez’s post in which he explains the increase in population in the past three years.

Garicano confirms that this increase translates to “1.6 million in three years, of whom 1.9 million were born abroad and 300,000 were born in Spain.”

The author of the original tweet explains that it is a graph of the variation of the resident population in Spain by country of birth.

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