1,987,207 average foreign citizens contributing to Spanish Social Security system in August

The largest groups of foreign workers paying in to our Social Security system come from Romania (332,548), Morocco (231,066), Italy (117,345), China (103,660) and Ecuador (74,738). These countries are followed by Colombia (66,002), the United Kingdom (63,108), Bulgaria (59,507), Portugal (52,054) and Bolivia (51,646).

Autonomous regions

In month-on-month terms, the number of foreign contributors to the Spanish Social Security system rose in Cantabria (1.11%), Asturias (1.04%), Navarre (1.04%), the Canary Islands (0.78%) and Galicia (0.68%), while it fell in all the others, with the largest declines in the Region of Murcia (down 7.75%) Castile-La Mancha (down 7.54%), Extremadura (down 5.79%) and Aragón (down 5.16%).

Of the total number of foreign workers contributing to the Spanish Social Security system, 819,496 are from EU countries while 1,167,711 are from further afield.

The majority of foreign citizens are registered under the General Regime: 1,658,596 in total, a figure that includes the Special System for Agricultural Workers (186,469) and the Special System for Domestic Workers (176,498). This is followed by the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (323,507), the Special Regime for Seamen (5,014) and the Special Regime for Coal Workers (91).

Of the total foreign citizens contributing to the Spanish system, 1,105,653 are men and 881,554 are women. The data on foreign contributors per autonomous region are as follows:

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