14 December 2012

Population and Housing Censuses 2011

According to the Census, Spain has a population of 46,815,916

inhabitants at 1 November 2011, with growth of almost 6 million

persons in a decade

The number of foreign nationals stands at 5,252,473 persons

The Population Census, conducted during the last months of 2011 and the first months of 2012, is the largest statistical operation that the INE carries out every ten years. Among other information that the INE will disseminate over the coming months, it provides the population figures for each of the municipalities in Spain, which are being presented today. This population reached 46,815,916 inhabitants at 1 November 2011 (the Census date). In comparison with the 2001 Census, the population grew by 5,968,545 persons, indicating a 14.6% increase.

Taking into account the information from other Censuses, there had never been such a large increase in population, in absolute terms or in relative terms.

Comparison of the population between 2001 and 2011

Censo 2001 (*) Censo 2011 (*) Absoluto Relativo (%)Spaniards 39,275,358 41,563,443 2,288,085 5.8%Males 19,194,881 20,372,386 1,177,505 6.1%Females 20,080,477 21,191,057 1,110,580 5.5%Foreigners 1,572,013 5,252,473 3680460 234.1%Males 818,001 2,731,917 1,913,916 234.0%Females 754,012 2,520,556 1,766,544 234.3%Total 40,847,371 46,815,916 5,968,545 14.6%Males 20,012,882 23,104,303 3,091,421 15.4%Females 20,834,489 23,711,613 2,877,124 13.8%(*) cifras referidas a 1 de noviembre

Población Incremento

The main cause of the increase in population between 2001 and 2011 was due to the strong increase in the foreign population. More than 3.5 million foreign nationals arrived in Spain during this period.

The Spanish population experienced a much smaller increase, in relative terms, than the foreign population, and grew from somewhat more than 39 million inhabitants in 2001 to more than 41.5 million inhabitants. There were several reasons for this growth, such as an increase in life expectancy since the previous Census, an increase in the birth rate (above all during the 2005-2009 period) or the fact that many foreign nationals acquired Spanish citizenship.

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The population figures from the 2011 Population and Housing Censuses were obtained using the information existing in different administrative registers, the Municipal Register being the main register used, as well as a large survey that was conducted on more than 10% of the population.

This Census was characterised by being the first that had to comply with community regulation 1. This will enable a greater and improved comparability of the data between the member countries of the European Union. Information relating to buildings and dwellings will be provided in the first months of 2013; prior to the end of the coming year, all of the data on the remaining census variables will have been disseminated.

Data by Autonomous Community and province: Almost generalised, but unequal, increase

The population increase in the last ten years occurred in all of the Autonomous Communities, though it was distributed very unequally, with the islands and Levante recording the greatest increase and the Northwest of the peninsula registering the smallest increase.

Total population and population by Autonomous Community. Variation as

compared with 2001

Censo 2011 Censo 2001 Variación (%)

Balears, Illes 1.100.503 841.669 30,8%Canarias 2.082.655 1.694.477 22,9%Melilla 81.323 66.411 22,5%Murcia, Región de 1.462.128 1.197.646 22,1%Comunitat Valenciana 5.009.931 4.162.776 20,4%Castilla - La Mancha 2.106.331 1.760.516 19,6%Cataluña 7.519.843 6.343.110 18,6%Madrid, Comunidad de 6.421.874 5.423.384 18,4%Ceuta 83.517 71.505 16,8%Rioja, La 321.173 276.702 16,1%Navarra, Comunidad Foral de 640.129 555.829 15,2%TOTAL Nacional 46.815.916 40.847.371 14,6%Andalucía 8.371.270 7.357.558 13,8%Aragón 1.344.509 1.204.215 11,7%Cantabria 592.542 535.131 10,7%País Vasco 2.185.393 2.082.587 4,9%Extremadura 1.104.499 1.058.503 4,3%Castilla y León 2.540.188 2.456.474 3,4%Galicia 2.772.928 2.695.880 2,9%Asturias, Principado de 1.075.183 1.062.998 1,1%

1 European Parliament and Council Regulation 763/2008 and other Commission regulations that consider it.

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Growth of the population, by Autonomous Community, between 2001

and 2011 (%)

1,1

2,9

3,4

4,3

4,9

10,7

11,7

13,8

14,6

15,2

16,1

16,8

18,4

18,6

19,6

20,4

22,1

22,5

22,9

30,8

Principado de Asturias

Galicia

Castilla y León

Extremadura

País Vasco

Cantabria

Aragón

Andalucía

TOTAL Nacional

Comunidad Foral de Navarra

La Rioja

Ceuta

Comunidad de Madrid

Cataluña

Castilla - La Mancha

Comunitat Valenciana

Región de Murcia

Melilla

Canarias

Illes Balears

Regarding the provinces, Guadalajara grew the most, with 47%, followed by Girona, with 33% and Tarragona, with 32%. Only four provinces experienced a decrease in population (Zamora, Ourense, Lugo and Palencia).

Relative population growth, by province, between 2001 and 2011 (%)

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The ten provinces with the greatest population growth between 2001

and 2011 (%)

22,7

23,4

23,9

26,7

28,3

30,3

30,8

32,4

33,0

47,1

Castellón/Castelló

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Málaga

Alicante/Alacant

Almería

Toledo

Illes Balears

Tarragona

Girona

Guadalajara

The ten provinces with the smallest population growth between 2001 and 2011 (%)

-3,8

-2,9

-2,7

-2,1

0,9

1,1

1,3

2,2

3,0

3,7

Zamora

Ourense

Lugo

Palencia

León

Asturias

Salamanca

Cáceres

Bizkaia

Jaén

Data by municipality 2

The municipality that grew the most since the 2001 Census, in relative terms, was Yebes (Guadalajara), which saw its population multiplied by 10, increasing from 203 inhabitants in 2001 to 2,099 currently. Out of the ten municipalities that grew the most in relative terms, four were in the province of Guadalajara. Cuarte de Huerva (Zaragoza) and Egüés (Navarra) were the municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants that grew the most, in relative terms, since the 2001 Census, with increases greater than 400% in both cases.

The municipalities that grew the most in absolute terms were Madrid (+259,922 inhabitants), Barcelona (+107,129) and Palma de Mallorca (+68,243).

2 All of the population figures of the municipalities may be viewed at www.ine.es, in the following section: Censos 2011.

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The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the greatest relative

population increase between 2001 and 2011 (%)

103,0

106,7109,1

111,7111,9114,3

116,4143,2

151,8154,3159,5

184,1188,2

210,3238,4

252,6

281,7299,5

407,5431,2

Illescas (Toledo)Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Madrid)

Valdemoro (Madrid)Adeje (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)

Rojales (Alicante/Alacant)

Manilva (Málaga)La Oliva (Las Palmas)

Espartinas (Sevilla)Yuncos (Toledo)

Villanueva del Pardillo (Madrid)

La Nucia (Alicante/Alacant)El Casar (Guadalajara)

Yaiza (Las Palmas)Paracuellos de Jarama (Madrid)

Arroyo de la Encomienda (Valladolid)

Seseña (Toledo)Alovera (Guadalajara)

Arroyomolinos (Madrid)Egüés (Navarra)

Cuarte de Huerva (Zaragoza)

The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and which gained the most

population between 2001 and 2011 (in the number of inhabitants)

28.511

28.631

31.071

32.650

34.658

35.088

36.185

36.703

37.021

38.123

39.144

40.631

42.832

44.745

53.613

63.210

66.922

68.243

107.129

259.922

Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz)

Castellón de la Plana/ Castelló de la Plana

Cartagena (Murcia)

Elche/Elx (Alicante/Alacant)

Arona (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)

Marbella (Málaga)

Valdemoro (Madrid)

Roquetas de Mar (Almería)

Málaga

Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Madrid)

Torrevieja (Alicante/Alacant)

Terrassa (Barcelona)

Parla (Madrid)

Alicante/Alacant

Valencia

Zaragoza

Murcia

Palma de Mallorca

Barcelona

Madrid

4,145 municipalities (more than 50% of the total for Spain) recorded a drop in

population over these 10 years, but only 54 of them had more than 10,000 inhabitants. Of them, the municipality that lost the greatest percentage of its population was Villablino (León), which saw an 18% decrease in the number of inhabitants. Seven of the ten municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and which lost the most population since the 2001 Census were in Asturias.

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The municipalities that lost the post population, in absolute terms, were Cádiz, which lost 9,349 inhabitants, Ferrol (A Coruña), which lost 6.260 and Mieres, in Principado de Asturias (which lost 5,294).

The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the greatest relative

population decrease between 2001 and 2011 (%)

-4,9

-6,0-6,0

-6,4-6,6

-6,7-7,0

-7,3-7,5

-8,0-8,9-9,0

-9,3-11,1

-11,1-11,7

-14,7-15,5

-17,3-17,8

Arrasate/Mondragón (Gipuzkoa)Grado (Asturias)

Reinosa (Cantabria)Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba)

Portugalete (Bizkaia)Santa Comba (A Coruña)Cádiz

Basauri (Bizkaia)Badia del Vallès (Barcelona)

Ferrol (A Coruña)As Pontes de García Rodríguez (A Coruña)

Lena (Asturias)Sestao (Bizkaia)

Mieres (Asturias)San Martín del Rey Aurelio (Asturias)Valdés (Asturias)

Cangas del Narcea (Asturias)Tineo (Asturias)

Aller (Asturias)Villablino (León)

The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and which lost the most

population between 2001 and 2011 (in the number of inhabitants)

-1.111

-1.143

-1.227

-1.725

-1.797

-1.951

-2.033

-2.221

-2.254

-2.423

-2.528

-2.622

-2.968

-3.308

-3.368

-4.710

-4.898

-5.294

-6.260

-9.349

Badia del Vallès (Barcelona)

Arrasate/Mondragón (Gipuzkoa)

Lena (Asturias)

Valdés (Asturias)

Langreo (Asturias)

Tineo (Asturias)

Getxo (Bizkaia)

Villablino (León)

San Martín del Rey Aurelio (Asturias)

Cangas del Narcea (Asturias)

Aller (Asturias)

Santander

Sestao (Bizkaia)

Basauri (Bizkaia)

Portugalete (Bizkaia)

Salamanca

Valladolid

Mieres (Asturias)

Ferrol (A Coruña)

Cádiz

Population by size of the municipality

For the whole of the decade, a reduction was observed in the percentage of the population living in small municipalities (with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants), along with an increase in the population resident in medium-sized municipalities, with the group of municipalities with 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants presenting the most significant growth.

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Variation of the population, by size of the municipality 2001-2011

Censo 2011 Censo 2001 Censo 2011 Censo 2001 Incremento (%)

TOTAL 8.116 8.108 46.815.916 40.847.371 14,6%

Menos de 101 hab 1.138 981 68.166 60.396 12,9%De 101 a 500 hab 2.694 2.848 674.546 714.260 -5,6%De 501 a 1.000 hab 1.054 1.122 754.758 796.662 -5,3%De 1.001 a 2.000 hab 922 992 1.313.798 1.426.139 -7,9%De 2.001 a 5.000 hab 1.000 1.005 3.161.478 3.156.725 0,2%De 5.001 a 10.000 hab 553 510 3.877.467 3.497.229 10,9%De 10.001 a 20.000 hab 361 334 5.131.973 4.673.214 9,8%De 20.001 a 50.000 hab 250 197 7.422.185 5.839.977 27,1%De 50.001 a 100.000 hab 82 63 5.857.902 4.231.284 38,4%De 100.001 a 500.000 hab 56 50 11.014.339 9.446.485 16,6%

Más de 500.000 hab 6 6 7.539.304 7.005.000 7,6%

Nº municipios Población

Analysing the population in the smallest municipalities, the 2,000 smallest municipalities in Spain (a quarter of the total) barely account for 183,000 persons (0.4% of the population), with a decrease greater than 9% over the decade.

Population of the smallest municipalities in 2001 and in 2011

Censo 2001 Censo 2011 Variación (%)Los 1.000 municipios más pequeños 62.318 54.832 ‐12,0%Los 2.000 municipios más pequeños 201.955 183.174 ‐9,3%Los 5.000 municipios más pequeños 1.621.137 1.615.960 ‐0,3%

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Foreign population

Since the last Census, a very important increase occurred in the foreign population resident in Spain. Of particular note was the increase in Rumanian and Moroccan persons, in absolute terms, and in Paraguayan, Bolivian and Rumanian persons, in relative terms.

Relative growth of the foreign population between 2001 and 2011. Nationalities with

the greatest absolute increase (%)

46,3

56,2

212,2

221,9

229,0

234,1

382,2

471,7

520,1

1.287,2

1.523,4

Ecuador

Colombia

Marruecos

Perú

Reino Unido

Total Extranjeros

Italia

Bulgaria

China

Rumanía

Bolivia

Growth of the foreign population. 2001- 2011

Censo 2001 Censo 2011 Absoluta IncrementoTotal 5.252.473 1.572.013 3.680.460 234,1%Rumania 798.104 57.533 740.571 1287,2%Marruecos 773.966 247.941 526.025 212,2%Reino Unido 312.098 94.862 217.236 229,0%Bolivia 183.626 11.311 172.315 1523,4%China 171.127 27.595 143.532 520,1%Italia 177.520 36.815 140.705 382,2%Bulgaria 150.878 26.391 124.487 471,7%Ecuador 316.756 216.474 100.282 46,3%Colombia 250.087 160.104 89.983 56,2%Perú 124.041 38.531 85.510 221,9%Portugal 121.741 40.863 80.878 197,9%Paraguay 77.205 1.113 76.092 6836,6%Alemania 153.245 78.020 75.225 96,4%Brasil 87.973 18.305 69.668 380,6%Ucrania 84.136 22.197 61.939 279,0%Rep. Dominicana 91.353 31.582 59.771 189,3%Polonia 75.484 16.348 59.136 361,7%Pakistán 69.163 10.129 59.034 582,8%Argentina 105.219 47.661 57.558 120,8%Francia 100.798 46.894 53.904 114,9%Resto países 1.027.952 341.344 686.608 201,1%

Población Variación

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Relative growth of the foreign population between 2001 and 2011. Nationalities with

the greatest growth (%) Women.

42,3

49,1

227,6

234,3

256,0

404,4

519,2

549,7

1.540,5

1.634,1

7.479,2

Ecuador

Colombia

Reino Unido

TOTAL

Marruecos

Italia

Bulgaria

China

Rumanía

Bolivia

Paraguay

Relative growth of the foreign population between 2001 and 2011. Nationalities with

the greatest growth (%) Men.

50,5

65,9

187,8

230,3

234,0

260,6

367,5

435,1

495,8

1.112,7

1.388,0

Ecuador

Colombia

Marruecos

Reino Unido

TOTAL

Portugal

Italia

Bulgaria

China

Rumanía

Bolivia

In all of the Autonomous Communities, there was a significant increase in the number of foreign nationals, as compared with the previous Census. Nonetheless, there were Autonomous Communities, such as Illes Balears, Región de Murcia, Comunitat Valenciana and Cataluña, in which the percentage of foreign nationals represented over 15% of their Autonomous Community.

On the other hand, the number of foreign nationals was higher in certain areas, such as large capitals, islands and Spanish Levante, whereas other areas, such as the Northwest of the mainland and the least-population municipalities of the centre, recorded lower percentages of foreign nationals.

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Growth of the foreign population, by Autonomous Community. 2001 – 2011

Censo 2011 Censo 2001 Absoluta Relativa

Respecto del total de la población

Respecto del total de extranjeros

TOTAL 5.252.473 1.572.013 3.680.460 234,1% 11,2% 100,0%Castilla - La Mancha 215.469 40.668 174.801 429,8% 10,2% 4,1%País Vasco 141.947 31.168 110.779 355,4% 6,5% 2,7%Castilla y León 163.260 37.674 125.586 333,3% 6,4% 3,1%Cantabria 37.457 8.661 28.796 332,5% 6,3% 0,7%Aragón 164.770 38.314 126.456 330,1% 12,3% 3,1%Andalucía 658.139 178.130 480.009 269,5% 7,9% 12,5%Cataluña 1.128.445 310.307 818.138 263,7% 15,0% 21,5%Asturias, Principado de 47.711 13.254 34.457 260,0% 4,4% 0,9%Comunitat Valenciana 756.772 217.673 539.099 247,7% 15,1% 14,4%Extremadura 38.698 11.271 27.427 243,3% 3,5% 0,7%Rioja, La 44.121 12.865 31.256 243,0% 13,7% 0,8%Murcia, Región de 226.343 69.556 156.787 225,4% 15,5% 4,3%Balears, Illes 222.120 68.825 153.295 222,7% 20,2% 4,2%Galicia 103.685 35.152 68.533 195,0% 3,7% 2,0%Canarias 276.524 97.950 178.574 182,3% 13,3% 5,3%Navarra, Comunidad Foral de 65.323 24.274 41.049 169,1% 10,2% 1,2%Madrid, Comunidad de 945.252 366.096 579.156 158,2% 14,7% 18,0%Ceuta 5.417 3.246 2.171 66,9% 6,5% 0,1%Melilla 11.021 6.929 4.092 59,1% 13,6% 0,2%

Población Variación % Extranjeros

Percentage of the foreign population, by province. 2011

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The ten provinces with the highest percentage of foreign population in 2011 (%)

15,2

15,4

15,5

16,8

17,5

17,6

19,9

20,2

20,3

20,5

Guadalajara

Málaga

Murcia

Castellón/Castelló

Tarragona

Lleida

Almería

Illes Balears

Girona

Alicante/Alacant

The ten provinces with the greatest growth in the foreign population between 2001

and 2011 (%)

429,3

429,4

447,3

460,5

469,6

476,0

478,9

489,2

510,9

627,6

Badajoz

Toledo

Teruel

Zamora

Ciudad Real

Cuenca

Lleida

Huelva

Guadalajara

Ávila

The ten provinces with the lowest percentage of foreign population in 2011 (%)

3,0

3,3

3,3

3,4

3,7

3,8

3,9

3,9

4,0

4,2

Córdoba

A Coruña

Jaén

Badajoz

Cáceres

Cádiz

Pontevedra

Sevilla

Lugo

Palencia

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Foreign population, by municipality

The municipality with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the highest percentage of foreign population was Rojales (Alicante), with 72%. The five municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the highest proportion of foreign population were in the province of Alicante (the other four were Teulada, L'Alfás del Pí, Calp y Jávea /

Xabia). On the other hand, the municipality with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the lowest percentage of foreign population was Ubrique (Cádiz), with less than 1% foreign nationals.

The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the highest

percentage of foreign population in 2011 (%)

40,1

40,1

40,7

40,9

40,9

41,9

41,9

42,2

43,6

45,2

45,3

45,8

46,8

47,7

49,0

52,3

52,7

58,9

71,5

44,0

Arona (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)Manilva (Málaga)

Antigua (Las Palmas)Pilar de la Horadada (Alicante/Alacant)

Salt (Girona)Pájara (Las Palmas)

Tías (Las Palmas)Yaiza (Las Palmas)

La Oliva (Las Palmas)Mazarrón (Murcia)

Santiago del Teide (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)Mogán (Las Palmas)

Torrevieja (Alicante/Alacant)Adeje (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)

Castelló d'Empúries (Girona)Jávea/Xàbia (Alicante/Alacant)

Calp (Alicante/Alacant)L' Alfàs del Pi (Alicante/Alacant)

Teulada (Alicante/Alacant)Rojales (Alicante/Alacant)

The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the greatest growth

in the foreign population between 2001 and 2011 (%)

1.077,01.080,01.080,8

1.107,91.161,6

1.194,71.196,21.198,21.206,1

1.247,71.305,0

1.398,11.426,4

1.616,81.634,7

1.744,21.840,6

1.968,22.238,0

3.004,4

Amorebieta-Etxano (Bizkaia)Illora (Granada)Loja (Granada)

Las Gabias (Granada)Palma del Río (Córdoba)

Jódar (Jaén)Egüés (Navarra)

Amurrio (Araba/Álava)La Algaba (Sevilla)

Lebrija (Sevilla)Alcaudete (Jaén)

Pilas (Sevilla)Osuna (Sevilla)

Arroyomolinos (Madrid)Villafranca de los Barros (Badajoz)

Alcalá la Real (Jaén)Alcalá del Río (Sevilla)

Medina-Sidonia (Cádiz)Cuarte de Huerva (Zaragoza)

Cantillana (Sevilla)

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The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the lowest

percentage of foreign population in 2011 (%)

0,91,0

1,11,31,31,41,4

1,51,51,51,51,5

1,61,6

1,71,71,71,71,81,8

Ubrique (Cádiz)Jódar (Jaén)

Bueu (Pontevedra)Morón de la Frontera (Sevilla)

Villamartín (Cádiz)Arahal (Sevilla)

Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz)Gondomar (Pontevedra)

Rianxo (A Coruña)Fene (A Coruña)

Santa Comba (A Coruña)San Fernando (Cádiz)

Teror (Las Palmas)Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba)

Arucas (Las Palmas)Moaña (Pontevedra)

Aller (Asturias)Cádiz

Las Cabezas de San Juan (Sevilla)Osuna (Sevilla)

An aging country

The massive arrival of foreign population (mostly younger than the Spanish population) did not prevent the average age increasing by 1.5 years in the ten years that elapsed since the last Census.

Population, by sex and age group. 2011

2.50

9.28

9

2.26

5.77

0

2.83

8.55

5

2.94

0.22

4

2.23

0.39

6

1.55

0.70

8

785.

839

98.2

73

3.78

1.71

3

4.10

3.53

4

2.36

0.75

1

2.13

6.56

3

2.76

4.50

1 3.87

9.30

7

3.66

5.50

6

2.99

0.44

5

2.41

0.19

3

265.

724

1.30

7.07

3

1.93

1.55

0

0-9 años 10-19años

20-29años

30-39años

40-49años

50-59años

60-69años

70-79años

80-89años

90 y más

Hombres Mujeres

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Percentage of foreign population, out of the total for each age group, by sex. 2011 (%) 10

,3 11,7

17,6 19

,1

13,0

7,7

5,5

4,3

2,2

2,3

10,1 11

,4

19,4

17,2

11,1

7,3

5,4

1,2

1,4

3,1

0-9años

10-19años

20-29años

30-39años

40-49años

50-59años

60-69años

70-79años

80-89años

90 ymás

Hombres Mujeres

Grouping the population in large age groups, during these ten years, there was an increase in the relative weight of the population aged 40 to 64 years old, and a decrease in the relative weight of the population aged 16 to 39 years old. This translated as a slight increase in the dependency rate, the relationship between the population of economically inactive age (under 16 and over 64 years old) and the population aged 16 to 64 years old, the ages considered to be economically active, which rose from 0.485 in 2001 to 0.500 in 2011. This meant that, currently, for each

person of economically inactive age, there were exactly two persons of working age.

Population, by sex and large age group, in 2001 and 2011 (%)

15,6

37,6

29,7

17,0

16,0

32,8 33,8

17,3

Menos de 16 años 16-39 años 40-64 años 65 y más

Censo 2001 Censo 2011

This aging of the population was observed more clearly by overlapping the population periods for 2001 and 2011. The most numerous generations, which in the 2001 Census were around 25 years old, were not around 35 years old. There was also a slight recovery of the birth rate at the base of the 2011 pyramid, that decreased over time.

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Pirámides de Población de España 2001-2011.

90 95

100 +Varones Mujeres

85

Regarding the distribution by sex, in Spain, there were 97 males for every 100 females. The percentage of females was slightly lower than that of males up to 50 years of age, at which point this difference was inverted, gradually increasing.

Percentage of males and females, by age. 2011

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

0-4años

5-9años

10-14años

15-19años

20-24años

25-29años

30-34años

35-39años

40-44años

45-49años

50-54años

55-59años

60-64años

65-69años

70-74años

75-79años

80-84años

85-89años

90-94años

95-99años

100 ymás

Hombres Mujeres

As occurred in the previous census, the oldest Autonomous Communities were those in the Northwest of the mainland, whereas the youngest were on the islands and the Southeast of the mainland. Worth noting was Principado de Asturias, with an average age of 46.3 years old.

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Average age of the population, by Autonomous Community. 2011

34,735,9

38,739,7

39,939,9

40,541,0

41,2

41,541,8

42,342,4

43,343,5

43,845,3

45,546,3

41,3

MelillaCeuta

Región de MurciaAndalucía

Illes Balears Canarias

Comunidad de Madrid Castilla-La Mancha

CataluñaComunitat Valenciana

ESPAÑAComunidad Foral de Navarra

ExtremaduraLa RiojaAragón

CantabriaPaís Vasco

GaliciaCastilla y León

Principado de Asturias

Analysing the evolution since 2001, the Autonomous Community that aged the most was Canarias, followed by Galicia, Extremadura and Principado de Asturias.

Censo 2011 Censo 2001Diferencia (años)

Total 41,5 40,0 1,5Canarias 39,9 36,8 3,1Galicia 45,3 42,9 2,4Asturias, Principado de 46,3 44,0 2,3Extremadura 42,3 40,0 2,3Andalucía 39,7 37,6 2,1Castilla y León 45,5 43,5 2,0País Vasco 43,8 41,8 2,0Cantabria 43,5 41,8 1,7Comunitat Valenciana 41,3 39,7 1,6Murcia, Región de 38,7 37,2 1,5Madrid, Comunidad de 40,5 39,1 1,4Ceuta 35,9 34,7 1,2Balears, Illes 39,9 38,8 1,1Melilla 34,7 33,7 1,0Navarra, Comunidad Foral de 41,8 41,0 0,8Rioja, La 42,4 41,8 0,6Castilla-La Mancha 41,0 40,5 0,5Cataluña 41,2 40,7 0,5Aragón 43,3 42,9 0,4

Edad media por comunidades autónomas. Variación respecto a 2001

The provinces with the highest average age were located in the Northwest of the peninsula: Ourense (49.0 years old), Zamora (48.6% and Lugo (48.5%). However, those with the youngest average age were located in both Melilla (34.7) and Ceuta (35.9), and in the Southwest: Almería (38.3) and Murcia (38.7).

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The ten provinces with the lowest average age. 2011

34,7

35,9

38,3

38,7

39,1

39,1

39,2

39,6

39,7

39,9

Melilla

Ceuta

Almería

Murcia

Cádiz

Sevilla

Las Palmas

Huelva

Guadalajara

Illes Balears

The ten provinces with the highest average age. 2011

45,1

45,6

45,9

46,1

46,1

46,3

46,8

48,5

48,6

49,0

Teruel

Ávila

Salamanca

Soria

Palencia

Asturias

León

Lugo

Zamora

Ourense

Average age of the population, by province. 2011

The oldest municipality in Spain was La Riba de Escalote (Soria). Its 18 inhabitants presented an average age of nearly 76 years old. Four of the ten oldest municipalities in Spain were located in the province of Soria.

Focusing on those municipalities with a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants, Rojales (Alicante) was the oldest municipality, with an average age of 52.4 years old. In addition to this, seven of the ten oldest municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were in Asturias, and the other two were in the province of Lugo.

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The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the highest average

age. 2011

46,946,9

47,347,347,3

47,647,647,7

47,948,048,1

48,248,2

48,448,448,6

49,450,150,1

52,4

Carreño (Asturias)Fene (A Coruña)

Sarria (Lugo)Cangas del Narcea (Asturias)

Béjar (Salmanca)Santa Comba (A Coruña)

Lena (Asturias)Teulada (Alicante/Alacant)

San Martín del Rey Aurelio (Asturias)Reinosa (Santander)

Grado (Asturias)Mieres (Asturias)Gozón (Asturias)

Monforte de Lemos (Lugo)Villaviciosa (Asturias)

Vilalba (Lugo)Aller (Asturias)

Tineo (Asturias)Valdés (Asturias)

Rojales (Alicante/Alacant)

On the other hand, the youngest municipality in Spain was Arroyomolinos (Madrid), with an average age slightly higher than 31 years old. Four of the ten municipalities with a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the youngest average age were in the province of Madrid. Worth noting is that there was a strong correlation between the municipalities with a younger average age and the municipalities that grew the most as compared with the previous Census.

The 20 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and with the lowest average

age. 2011

31,031,0

32,032,032,0

32,332,4

32,633,0

33,333,4

33,734,034,034,1

34,234,234,234,234,3

Arroyomolinos (Madrid)Egüés (Navarra)

Cuarte de Huerva (Zaragoza)Villanueva del Pardillo (Madrid)

Alovera (Guadalajara)Seseña (Toledo)

Huércal de Almería (Almería)Paracuellos de Jarama (Madrid)

Arroyo de la Encomienda (Valladolid)Humanes de Madrid (Madrid)

Yuncos (Toledo)Valdemoro (Madrid)Espartinas (Sevilla)Bormujos (Sevilla)

Vícar (Almería)Meco (Madrid)

San Agustín del Guadalix (Madrid)Velilla de San Antonio (Madrid)

Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Madrid)Las Gabias (Granada)

On analysing average age, taking into account nationality, in general, those foreign nationals from African and Asian countries had lower average ages, with some of them recording average ages below 30 years old, whilst in the case of European nationals, they were generally much older. The foreign nationals with one of the

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highest average ages were the Swiss, with an average age of nearly 56 years old, followed very closely by the Norwegians.

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Methodological Note

The 2011 Census is the seventeenth official Census conducted in Spain. Its performance is within the framework of the 2010 Work Programme promoted by the United Nations, and which encompasses the 2005-2014 period.

For the first time, the Census has been carried out under community regulations: European Parliament and Council regulation 763/2008 , in addition to implementing the compulsory nature of conducting the Census during the year 2011, ensures the comparability of the results on a European Union level regarding the methodology, definitions and programme of data and associated statistical metadata.

The general methodological framework in which the Census project for Spain is developed is set by the recommendations of the Conference on European Statistics for the 2010 census route, and with a greater level of specification by the aforementioned regulation and the three Commission regulations that carry out the former (regarding definitions of variables and classifications, regarding data hypercubes and regarding operation quality).

The 2011 Population and Housing Census is presented as an operation based on the combination of the following elements:

• A "precensus file" created from the maximum use of the available administrative registers, taking the Register as the basic element of its structure.

• Fieldwork that includes two large operations:

o A comprehensive Building census that enables georeferencing all buildings.

o A large sampling survey, aimed at a relatively high percentage of the population, to ascertain the rest of the characteristics of the persons and the dwellings.

Obtaining the population figures from the precensus file

The population figures are obtained through the count of the registers containing the precensus file, weighted - when necessary- with count factors obtained from the survey.

The main objective of the precensus file is to have enough information available to carry out the count of the population and the analysis of its structure (using not only the most basic variables, but also all those census variables that may be included in this file). To this end, it began with the Register, statistical information and administrative sources: Identity Card and Residence Permit registers of the Home Office, Vital Statistics, Social Security, Tax Agency.

As a result of crossing the Register with these administrative registers, for most of the persons appearing in the precensus file, it is considered that their residence in Spain is confirmed, as their identification has managed to be crossed with these sources, and

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this means that they are affiliates registered as workers or pensioners, or who appear in the Tax Agency databases. For these persons, it is considered that their residence in Spain is ensured, and they are assigned a count factor equal to 1.

Other registers will have a count factor of 0, such as those that have been found in Deaths in Vital Statistics.

However, those persons whose identification it has not been possible to find in these registers (or which has been found, but the reason for finding it does not allow for ensuring their residence, for example in the case of an immigrant who has requested a health card, or a recipient of only capital income or personal wealth) are initially considered doubtful, as their residence in Spain could not be confirmed entirely, and therefore, their count factor was unknown.

In fact, the number of doubtful registers was nearly 1,040,000 persons (2.2% of the

total records), 87% of which were foreign population.

Quantification of the doubtful population

Once the records of the precensus file that are finally considered doubtful are determined, they are classified in population classes or groups defined by socio-demographic characteristics: age, nationality and province of residence.

The classes were configured in such a way that they had at least 1,000 doubtful records, and that each doubtful record belonged to a class. The classes with fewer than 1,000 doubtful records were grouped together. The means of grouping has been, for the same nationality and province, to select greater age brackets, and if this were not enough, for the same nationality on an Autonomous Community level, and if even so it has not been possible to reach the minimum, the grouping has been made for said nationality on a national level, and lastly and residually, nationalities were grouped on a national level. In this way, the precensus file had a configuration of 724 classes with

at least 1,000 doubtful persons in each. 68.4% of the doubtful persons were estimated by defining classes on a provincial level. Also considering classes on a nationality and Autonomous Community level, this encompasses 80% of the doubtful persons.

The most noteworthy class, based on the proportion of doubtful population is that of German nationals over 80 years of age in the province of Alicante, comprising nearly 3,000 persons, 70% of whom were considered doubtful. The most numerous class in terms of doubtful persons is that of citizens of the United Kingdom, also in Alicante, aged 60 to 65 years old, which comes to a total of almost 6,000 doubtful persons.

Using the information collected in the survey targeting the sample of households, for each class, this has estimated the proportion of doubtful records found in reality, enabling the calculation of a count factor for the doubtful records of the class, and this factor may be greater than, less than or equal to 1.

In this way, the precensus file is converted to a Weighted Final Census File, including those count factors and permitting obtaining the census population figures.

This count factor, obtained for each class, is that which is applied to the Precensus File records, with an unknown count factor, belonging to the class. At the end of this process, all of the records have a count factor assigned in the Weighted Final Census

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File (WFCF). The average count factor was 0.424, which implies that the 1,040,000 doubtful records are counted as a population of approximately 440,000 persons.

The field operation: building census and sample of dwellings

At the end of September 2011, the dispatch of letters began to some 2.2 million households, requesting that they fill out the census questionnaire online. In November, the dispatch of reminders began, and in December, letters with printed questionnaire began to be sent to those households that had not responded online.

At the end of November, census personnel began to be hired, this staff consisting of 4,000 agents, 800 group supervisors and 160 regional supervisors. The completion dates were different for each province, but the average stood at 17.5 work weeks (lasting until approximately the end of March 2012).

The field operation corresponding to the Building Census was carried out between December 2011 and February 2012. 27,637 (96%) of the 28,799 sections expected to conduct this census were completed. For 7,200 sections, it was not considered necessary to perform this route, due to the quality of the starting territorial directories and to the degree of coincidence with the Land Registry.

With the Building Census completed, throughout February 2012, the census agents began to conduct personal interviews with those households that had not collaborated until that time, together with a sample of the dwellings that had been incorporated as registered during the building census phase. The questionnaires were collected via laptop computer.

The sample actually collected reached a total of 4.2 million persons, corresponding to 1.65 million main dwellings, and some 600,000 non-main dwellings. The collection for main dwellings, via different channels, has been as follows: 39% online, 51% in print

format and 10% by personal interview.

Publication calendar:

The population figures, by municipality, presented here are final, and constitute the first census product. Throughout the year 2013, different publications will follow, with the most noteworthy being the following:

Data on buildings and dwellings: April

2001-2011 Inter-census estimates: April

Population resident in group dwellings: June.

Detailed results of the Census: December.

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