The population of Barcelona born abroad has multiplied by seven since 2000moving from 74,169 people in that group until 572,459, with a total population that reaches 1,702,814 residents in the Catalan capital, according to the Barcelona City Council this Sunday in a statement.
They are data from the Municipal Data Office from the Barcelona City Council, collected in the report ‘The population of Barcelona according to the place of birth and nationality to 01/01/2024: a diverse Barcelona’, which Recover data from the municipal register of inhabitants updated until January 1, 2024.
With those figures, the number of registered people who were born outside Barcelona is greater than those born in the city: The native population represents 46.1%, while those born in the rest of Catalonia are 6.9%, Those born in the rest of Spain are 13.4%and those born abroad are 33.6%.
During the period analyzed, from 1997 to 2024, the population with foreign nationality has multiplied by 16, going from 26,600 to 432,556 registered in Barcelona on January 1, 2024with an ascending evolution that has only been interrupted during the economic crisis of 2008 and 2021 by the Pandemia of the COVID-19.
At the beginning of 2024, the number of people with foreign nationality registered in Barcelona had increased 10.4% compared to figures a year agoand supposes a maximum in the recent history of the Catalan capital.
For the first time for the city of Barcelona, the number of people with foreign nationality is more than one in fourtranslating in 25.4% of the total population and exceeding the 430,000 registered of foreign nationality.
With data from 2024, 180 nationalities coexist in Barcelona: The first is the Italian (50,052 people), although in this group there are many people with Italian dual nationality and Argentinaand followed by Colombia (28,551), Pakistan (24,706), China (21,876), Peru (21,090), France (18,723), Morocco (17,772), Honduras (17,715), Venezuela (17,410) and Argentina (14.287).
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