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The UK was one of the top 3 countries of choice for Spanish expats, most of them aged 16-64
According to the latest data from the INE’s Register of Spaniards Resident Abroad (PERE), the number of people with Spanish nationality living abroad reached 2,742,605 on January 1, 2022. This represents an increase of 3.3% (87,882 people) with respect to the data from the same day last year.
In the year of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Spanish population living abroad increased, but by a more modest 1.4%.
By continent, during 2021, 59% of those registered abroad were resident in the Americas, 37.2% in Europe and 3.8% in the rest of the world. During 2021, though, the largest increases in Spanish expats were to countries in Europe, with 45,313 Spaniards choosing to emigrate elsewhere on the continent.
The bulk of them were of working age – between 16 and 64 years old. Specifically, 15.5% of those registered in the PERE on 1 January 2022 were under 16 years of age, 62.3% were aged 16 to 64 and 22.2% were of retirement age – 65 or over.
The most popular foreign countries for Spaniards to move to, with the largest increases in relative terms, were Morocco (10.8%), the United Kingdom (9.6%) and Colombia (9.3%).
The Spanish population decreased in Ecuador (-1.1%), Uruguay (-0.4%), Bolivia and Peru (-0.3% in both countries).
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