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Spaniards continue to abandon their homeland in search of opportunities

Xinhua, June 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

The economic crisis may officially be over, but Spaniards are continuing to abandon their homeland in search of opportunities elsewhere, according to official figures.

The data published by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) on Thursday shows that in 2015, 98,934 Spaniards left Spain to live in other countries, while 52,227 returned to Spain after having lived abroad.

This was balanced by the number of foreigners who came to live in Spain in 2015 with 291,387 arrivals against 253,069 people leaving the country.

This is the first time since the depth of the crisis in 2010 that immigration has outstripped migration, but it wasn't enough to stop the overall population declining by 11,142 people during 2015.

On Jan. 1, 2016 the total population stood at 46,438,442, of whom 4,418,898, or 9.5 percent, were foreigners.

Worrying for the future, the age groups which saw the largest reduction in numbers were those of between 20 and 39 years of age, which saw a fall of 389,662, while there are also 63,286 fewer children under 10 years old in the country. Endit