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Surrounded: the foreign population already exceeds the local population in Tirajana
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Surrounded: the foreign population already exceeds the local population in Tirajana

Yurena Vega Monday, November 22, 2021

The third municipality in Spain where the presence of registered foreigners has grown the most after Salt "Gerona" is San Bartolomé de Tirajana

The third municipality in Spain where the presence of registered foreigners has grown the most after Salt "Gerona" is San Bartolomé de Tirajana. And this means? that there are more foreigners than natives than tirajaneros. According to the data published by the INE from the 2020 municipal register, 28,23% (15.073) of the inhabitants registered in San Bartolomé de Tirajana were born in said municipality, 38.75% have emigrated to San Bartolomé de Tirajana from different places in Spain, 28,49% (15.215) from other municipalities in the province of Las Palmas, 0.83% (442) from other provinces in the community of the Canary Islands, 9.43% (5.036) from other autonomous communities and 33.02% ( 17.631) have emigrated to San Bartolomé de Tirajana from other countries.

The average age of the inhabitants of San Bartolomé de Tirajana is 42,29 years, 1,41 years more than five years ago, which was 40,88 years. According to the data published by the INE in the CERA, Electoral Census of Spaniards residing abroad as of February 1, 2021, Tirajaneros who habitually reside abroad or have moved their habitual residence abroad over the age of 18 were 1.645 people from the municipality. .

The inhabitants registered in San Bartolomé de Tirajana who were born in other countries amount to 17.631, with 3.680 inhabitants, 1.824 inhabitants, 1.101 men and 723 women born in Africa; 1.735 men and 1.945 women born in America and 1.858 inhabitants, 963 men and 895 women born in Asia. We have 11 inhabitants, 4 men and 7 women born in Oceania. Italy has overtaken the Germans in this pandemic with 2.721 nationals. Germany continues to be the country with the largest 2.399 inhabitants and Morocco, the most faithful when it comes to voting in local elections, with 1.589; But coming from the Cuban dictatorship there are 1.159 nationals who, for the most part, do dependency services. In the south of Gran Canaria there are 730 Colombians and 681 Chinese.

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