The ministry warns that the fact that a person has valid residence documentation does not guarantee that you are actually in Spain, Well, he has been able to leave and therefore there may be more residence permits than registered foreigners.
A paradigmatic case is that of the Romanians: They have 1.1 million registration certificates in forcebut those registered are around 630,000.
In the case of the Moroccans happen the other way around, since there are more registered residents than people with authorizatione residence in force -about 100,000- although the data cannot be compared exactly, since the latest figures from the registry are from January 2023 and the permits from December.
The Migration balance includes 2,922,830 foreigners from outside the European Union, subject to the immigration law, with a valid residence permitwhile the registration certificates of Europeans, the cards of their relatives and the British, with a different procedure after Brexit, total 3,889,868.
The temporary protection granted to Ukrainians from 2022After the Russian aggression, this nationality has placed itself in second place, after the Moroccans and ahead of the Chinese.
There are more than 787,000 Moroccans with valid documentationalmost 274,500 Ukrainians and nearly 237,000 Chinese.
Behind them are the Venezuelans (168,736), Colombians (156,266) and Ecuadorians (115,814) and the rest of the nationalities are below 100,000 authorizations.
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The average age of these foreigners is 37 years, compared to 44 years of the general population residing in Spainand there is a slight prevalence of men (53%) over women.
Although in cases like Honduras and Nicaragua more than 70 percent are women.
Migrations highlights that this group contributes significantly to the rejuvenation and growth of the population in Spain: while in the Spanish population People aged 65 and over represent 22% of the total, abroad with a residence permit that age group only represents 5%.