Spanish diaspora

Spanish diaspora
Spanish: Diáspora Española
Total population
Spanish nationals abroad:
2,908,649 Increase (2024 est)[1]
(of which 855,303 were born in Spain)
Regions with significant populations
Number of Spanish citizens by country
 Argentina482,176[1]
 France310,072[1]
 United States206,278[1]
 United Kingdom189,779[1]
 Germany188,250[1]
 Mexico171,461[1]
 Cuba167,684[1]
 Brazil140,319[1]
 Venezuela138,394[1]
  Switzerland136,225[1]
 Belgium77,909[1]
 Uruguay67,414[1]
 Chile66,399[1]
 Ecuador58,646[1]
 Romania46,000[2]
 Colombia37,086[1]
 Netherlands29,984[1]
 Peru28,425[1]
Dominican Republic Dominican Republic27,310[1]
 Andorra26,558[1]
 Italy25,446[1]
 Australia22,785[1]
 Canada18,118[1]
 Portugal16,981[3]
 Bolivia16,676[1]
 Panama14,503[1]
Morocco Morocco11,342[1]
 Sweden11,235[1]
 Ireland10,681[1]
 Philippines4,952[4]
 El Salvador2,877[1]
 Ukraine965[5]
Languages
Spanish languages (mainly Spanish, also Basque, Catalan, Galician, Astur-Leonese, etc.), French, English, Portuguese, German, and others.
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups

The Spanish diaspora consists of Spanish people and their descendants who emigrated from Spain.

In the Americas, the term most often refers to residents with Spanish nationality; this is in contrast to "Hispanic" which in English usually describes Spanish-speaking populations in general.

The diaspora is concentrated in places that were part of the Spanish Empire. Countries with sizeable populations are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil, Belize, Haiti, United States, Canada, the Philippines and wider Europe.

According to the latest data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística's Register of Spaniards Resident Abroad (PERE), "the number of people with Spanish nationality living abroad reached 2,908,649 on January 1, 2024, an increase of 4.2% (118,332 people) with respect to the data from the same day last year".[1][6] However, most of them are naturalized citizens returning to their countries of origin or remigrating elsewhere; only about 855,000 natural born Spaniards (about 2% of the population) live overseas.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae "Explotación estadística del Padrón de Españoles Residentes en el Extranjero (PERE) a 1 de enero de 2024". ine.es. 2024. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  2. ^ "Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination". February 10, 2014.
  3. ^ Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras: Relatório de Imigração, Fronteiras e Asilo 2020
  4. ^ "Ethnicity in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing)". psa.gov.ph. Table 5. Archived from the original on July 20, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
  5. ^ State statistics committee of Ukraine - National composition of population, 2001 census (Ukrainian)
  6. ^ "More Spaniards move out of Spain to live and work abroad". Murcia Today. March 17, 2022.