Territorial distribution of the population
🗺️ Territorial distribution of the population
Where Spain's population lives, which regions and provinces are gaining and losing weight, and in which provinces the share of people born abroad is highest.
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Population on 1 January according to the Continuous Population Statistics. Provinces are ranked from most to least populous to count how many are needed to add up to half of all inhabitants.
The weight of each region
Since 1975, the region that has gained the most weight in Spain's population is Comunidad de Madrid (2.8 points) and the one that has lost the most is Castilla y León (-2.5 points).
Provinces gaining and losing population
15 provinces have fewer inhabitants today than in 1975. The one that has grown the most is Illes Balears (114%) and the one that has lost the most is Zamora (-33%).
The most recent trend (last 10 years) is in Population trends, and municipal detail is in the regional profiles.
Foreign-born residents by province
The share of residents born in another country ranges from 29.2% in Alicante to 5.4% in Jaén.
Born abroad is not the same as foreign: it includes people who have acquired Spanish nationality and children of Spaniards born outside Spain. In Spain, 19.3% of the population was born abroad and 14.1% has foreign nationality.
Sources and notes
- INE – Continuous Population Statistics (table 56945): population on 1 January by province since 1971.
- INE – Population by place of birth (table 56948) and by nationality (table 56947), by province, since 2002.
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