Foreigners registered in Spain down by 0.3%

Foreigners as percentage

SPAIN (Agencies) The overall population of Spain has increased by 0.3%, for a population of 47,150,819 inhabitants. Of these, 5.7 million are registered foreign nationals, representing 12.2% of the total. The number of foreigners, though, has gone down by 0.3%, according to an advance report from Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE, National Statistics Institute). The number of foreigners coming to live here from the European Union increased by 42,319 (to a total of 2.3 million), while those from outside the EU decreased by 59,386, to a total of 3.33 million. The largest number of EU residents are Rumanians (864,278which grew by 4% to 33,043. They are followed by the British (390,880) and Germans (195,842). As for non-EU nationals, the Moroccans head the list with 769,920), followed by Ecuadorians (359,076) and Colombians (271,773). Pakistanis and Chinese have also registered significant increases, 22.8% and 5% respectively.