The resident population in Spain increased by 135,186 people in the second quarter of 2023 and raises the country's population as of July 1, 2023 to 48,345,223 inhabitants, the maximum value in the historical series, thanks to the increase in people born in the foreign.

According to provisional data from the Continuous Population Statistics (ECP), published on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the estimated population growth in annual terms is 573,661 people..

The population born outside of Spain was 8,457,886 people, greater than that of foreign nationality, due to the Spanish nationalization processes.

Thus, the number of foreigners increased by 100,394 people during the second quarter, up to a total of 6,335,419 as of July 1, 2023, while the population of Spanish nationality increased by 34,792 people.

Colombians and Moroccans, those who arrived the most in 2023

The main nationalities of immigrants during the second quarter of 2023 were Colombian (with 37,700 arrivals in Spain), Moroccan (21,500) and Spanish (19,900).

For their part, the most numerous emigrant nationalities were Moroccan (with 6,700 departures), Romanian (5,700) and Spanish (5,500)..

The Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Madrid experienced an increase

During the second quarter of 2023, the INE estimates that the population grew in all the autonomous communities, as well as in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

The greatest increases in relative terms occurred in the Balearic Islands (0.58%), Catalonia (0.51%), Madrid (0.45%) and the Valencian Community (0.44%).

On the other hand, the smallest increase was registered in Extremadura (0.01%), Asturias (0.03%), Ceuta (0.06%) and Castilla y León (0.08%)..