Murcia, where the town of Torre Pacheco is located, the recent scene of clashes between radicals and Moroccan immigrants, is the province where the number of workers from outside the EU has grown the least (47.3%) since 2015, an increase that in Canarias has been 111.7%, below the average.
Comparing the data from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration corresponding to last June with those of the same month of 2015, at the beginning of the recovery after the financial crisis, the affiliation of foreigners has increased in Spain by 85.6% to exceed three million people.
In June 2015, 1,668,099 people with foreign nationality worked in Spain, 693,728 from other countries of the European Union and 974,371 (58.4%) from the rest of the world.
Ten years later, 3,096,015 citizens with other nationalities work in Spain, more than 1.4 million more. Nearly one million (958,455) have come from other EU countries, which is 264,727, 38.2% more than in 2015, and more than two million (2,137,560) come from the rest of the world.
That is, in the last 10 years the number of people from outside the European Union who work in Spain has increased by 1,163,189, 119.4%.
The northwest third in the lead
The northwest third of the peninsula leads the increase in non-EU workers in the last 10 years, in the first place Galicia, with an increase of 233.7%, ahead of Castilla y León (209.4%) and Asturias (180.4%).
Also above the average are the Valencian Community (164.2%), Castilla-La Mancha (151.7%), Navarra (143.9%), Cantabria (140.9%), Andalusia (139.8%), the Basque Country (138.4%), Aragon (137.1%) and the Balearic Islands (133.5%).
Below the average are La Rioja (114.5%), the Canary Islands (111.7%), Madrid (110.1%), Extremadura (102.3%), Catalonia (98.5%) and Murcia (47.3%).
By provinces, four of them are close to quadrupling the number of affiliated foreigners: Zamora (271.8% more), Ourense (271.3%), A Coruña (268.5%) and Valladolid (261.8%) and in another six it has more than tripled: Segovia (225.5%), Lugo (223.9%), Palencia (222.3%), Huelva (217.5%), Ávila (214.8%) and Burgos (206.0%).
Only in six provinces has the number of non-EU workers not doubled: Barcelona (99.3% more), Las Palmas (95.6%), Girona (94.4%), Almería (92.1%), Tarragona (91.6%), Cáceres (65.2%) and Murcia (47.3%).
In absolute figures, two thirds of the workers from outside the EU who have arrived in the last 10 years have settled in the four most populated communities: 257,408 (22.1%) in Catalonia, 219,868 (18.9%) in Madrid, 154,465 (13.3%) in Andalusia and 144,250 (12.4%) in the Valencian Community.
