75% of people who move to the province of Alicante are from outside of Spain

As of the end of 2024, there were almost two million people living in the province of Alicante. This made it the fourth most populous region in Spain, after Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia, and ahead of places like Seville and Malaga, which don’t even hit two million people.

The number of people living there rose by almost 11,000 in the last three months of the previous year compared to the three months before that. That’s a rise of almost 36,000 people in just one year, according to the National Institute of Statistics’ Continuous Population Survey.

The foreign population is growing at a much faster rate than the national population, which is one reason for this big increase in population. The non-Spanish population grew by 28,293 people from one year to the next, which was 78% of the total yearly growth.

This means that more than three out of every four new people who move to the province of Alicante are not from there. This group of people grew by 8,357 between the last quarter of 2024 and the previous quarter.

These numbers are a lot higher than the Spanish population, which has stayed the same. As of the end of the third quarter of 2024, 7,631 more people lived in the country than there were in the whole of 2023. They only make up 12% of the yearly growth in population.

There are 1,536,319 Spanish people living in the province of Alicante right now, but there are also 492,894 people from other countries. There are 2,000 more men than women among the foreigners, while there are 34,000 more women than men among the Spanish locals.

The number of people living in Alicante has grown very quickly in the last 100 years. The number of people living there has grown by 190,635 in the last ten years and by 367,533 in the last twenty years. Among this growth, 214,260 are foreigners, while only 153,293 are Spanish citizens.

When it comes to age, most people in Alicante are of working age. The biggest age group is 45 to 49, followed by 50 to 54 and 55 to 59.

There are 426,451 people in Spain who are 65 or older, which is a big chunk of the population. This age group is much bigger in Spain.