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January 3rd, 2007
The number of non-Spanish inhabitants has risen by 13.25 per cent in the past year.
Residential tourism is also looking towards the interior of the province of Malaga. There has been a huge increase in the number of foreign residents in the Antequera area, with the non-Spanish population of the area having increased by 13.25 per cent in just less than a year. It must be taken into account, however, that this figure includes those non-Spaniards who have come to settle in the area for economic reasons, as distinct from those tourists who come from wealthy northern European countries. Such is the case of the Brazilians in the area, of whom there are 642, making them the biggest foreign community in Antequera. There are foreigners from a total of 55 different countries in the world living in the municipal, although most are British, Brazilian, Rumanian and Moroccan, representing 4.74 per cent of the whole population, which numbers 45,000 people.
The biggest northern European national group is the British, numbering 326 people, having increased over the past year from 279, according to recent data supplied by the Statistics Office in the Antequera Town Hall. The next biggest group is the Italians, with 46 of them living in the region, followed by the Germans, with a population of 40.
The growth in the foreign population is still less than in other years, nevertheless, although it must be taken into account that many foreign residents are immigrants who have failed to renew their work permits, thereby being excluded from the official census.
