Romanians in Spain

630,795 Romanian citizens (INE 2023)[4] North America South America Oceania Romanians form the second largest group of foreigners in Spain, after Moroccans.

[6] As of 2023[update], there were 630,795 Romanian citizens living in Spain.

By 2011, it reached a peak of nearly 900,000 people, after which the Romanian population has been steadily decreasing as a result of emigration from Spain since 2012 due to the economic problems and unemployment in the country, falling to 623,097 by 2022.

[9] Because of this, the diaspora in Italy, which has continued to increase, is now considerably larger than that in Spain.

Romanians in Spain have settled especially in the provinces of Madrid, Castellón, Valencia, Zaragoza and Barcelona.