Spanish diaspora

Spanish diaspora

Spanish: Diáspora Española
Total population
Spanish nationals abroad: 2,908,649 (2024 est)[1] (of which 855,303 were born in Spain)
Regions with significant populations
Number of Spanish citizens by country
Argentina	482,176[1]
France	310,072[1]
United States	206,278[1]
United Kingdom	189,779[1]
Germany	188,250[1]
Mexico	171,461[1]
Cuba	167,684[1]
Brazil	140,319[1]
Venezuela	138,394[1]
Switzerland	136,225[1]
Belgium	77,909[1]
Uruguay	67,414[1]
Chile	66,399[1]
Ecuador	58,646[1]
Romania	46,000[2]
Colombia	37,086[1]
Netherlands	29,984[1]
Peru	28,425[1]
Dominican Republic	27,310[1]
Andorra	26,558[1]
Italy	25,446[1]
Australia	22,785[1]
Canada	18,118[1]
Portugal	16,981[3]
Bolivia	16,676[1]
Panama	14,503[1]
Morocco	11,342[1]
Sweden	11,235[1]
Ireland	10,681[1]
Philippines	3,110[4]
El Salvador	2,877[1]
Ukraine	965[5]
Languages
Spanish languages (mainly Spanish, also Basque, Catalan, Galician, etc.), French, English, Portuguese, German, and others.
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Portuguese French Italians other Western Europeans · Hispanics Sephardi Jews

The Spanish diaspora consists of Spanish people and their descendants who emigrated from Spain. In the Americas, the term may refer to those of Spanish nationality living there; "Hispanic" is usually a more appropriate term to describe the general Spanish-speaking populations of the Americas together with those in Spain. The diaspora is concentrated in places that were part of the Spanish Empire. Countries with sizeable populations are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil, Belize, Haiti, United States, Canada, the Philippines and the rest of Europe.

According to the latest data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística's Register of Spaniards Resident Abroad (PERE), "the number of people with Spanish nationality living abroad reached 2,908,649 on January 1, 2024, an increase of 4.2% (118,332 people) with respect to the data from the same day last year".^[1][6]