Population
The inhabitants of the seventeen Autonomous Regions and the two Autonomous cities of the Spanish territory total thirty-nine million people, with a density of eighty people per Km2. This is one of the lowest density indexes of the European Union, a little more than Greece and Ireland and six times less than the Low Countries.

The highest density of population in Spain is concentrated in the region of Madrid, followed by the Basque Country, the Canary Islands, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community. The lowest density of population is in Castilla-La Mancha, followed by Aragón, Extremadura or Castilla León, with less than 30 inhabitants per Km2.

National inhabitants: the current population is composed of different ethnic-cultural groups: Castilians, Asturians, Andalusians, Valencians, Catalonians, Canarians, Basques and Galicians, coming from the fusion of the Iberian people, of Mediterranean origin; and the Celts, coming from Central Europe, with the Arabs from the North of Africa. Besides, this fusion is the result of the successive invasions occurred along the Spanish history, among which we have to highlight the invasions by Greeks, Romans, Visigothics, Arabs and Jewish.

Foreign inhabitants: of the total foreigners in Spain, more than 50% come from a European Union country, mainly from England, Germany, Portugal, France and Italy. Most of these people live in tourism and coastal areas, in the financial and business centres of Madrid and Barcelona. Among the foreign population of the rest of the world, 20% comes from America, mainly from Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. A great percentage of the Hispanic population belongs to the communitarian regime, that is, they are relatives of a national inhabitant of a European Union country. People coming from Africa is about 30%, and within this percentage, 80% comes from Morocco. Only 5% of the foreign inhabitants come from Asia, and the most representative population comes from the Philippines.