Wednesday, January 18, 2006

[Spain] Foreign population in Spain rises by 23pc in a year / Expatica, 17 Jan 2006

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=26869
"Foreigners now make up 8.5 percent of the Spanish population of just over 44 million, according to the latest figures. The population has risen by 910,000 in just under a year - an increase of 2.1 percent. There are now 3,730,610 foreigners registered in the country out of a total population of 44,108,530 people. The number of foreigners has risen by 696,284 since February last year, an increase of 22.9 percent. In comparison, the number of Spaniards has only gone up by 214,562 or 0.5 percent."