compatriots.net finds 1,640,326 people from abroad holding company roles, research posts or other documented positions in Spain, from 234 countries of origin; 16,660 of them are recorded by an official register.
The largest groups come from United States, United Kingdom, France.
| Country of origin | People |
|---|---|
| United States | 329,796 |
| United Kingdom | 141,360 |
| France | 103,384 |
| Brazil | 98,245 |
| Mexico | 82,975 |
| Italy | 76,998 |
| India | 64,159 |
| Argentina | 57,408 |
| Colombia | 51,247 |
| Chile | 49,113 |
| Germany | 44,598 |
| Portugal | 43,085 |
| Peru | 39,525 |
| Canada | 36,000 |
| Venezuela | 34,730 |
| Australia | 33,810 |
| Netherlands | 30,484 |
| Philippines | 19,469 |
| Türkiye | 18,567 |
| Poland | 17,003 |
| Belgium | 15,800 |
| China | 13,922 |
| Nigeria | 13,564 |
| Ireland | 12,762 |
| South Africa | 11,894 |
| Ecuador | 11,538 |
| Sweden | 11,403 |
| Egypt | 11,291 |
| Switzerland | 11,254 |
| Pakistan | 10,575 |
| Romania | 10,423 |
| Russian Federation | 10,350 |
| Denmark | 9,338 |
| Greece | 7,599 |
| Dominican Republic | 7,459 |
| Finland | 7,341 |
| Iran | 6,591 |
| New Zealand | 6,497 |
| Uruguay | 6,302 |
| Czechia | 6,134 |
| Other | 161,713 |
| Industry (ISIC section) | People |
|---|---|
| Electricity, gas and steam | 62 |
| Wholesale and retail trade | 36 |
| Construction | 35 |
| Accommodation and food | 27 |
| Manufacturing | 25 |
| Real estate | 25 |
| Information and communication | 22 |
| Public administration | 18 |
| Professional and scientific | 17 |
| Finance and insurance | 14 |
| Administrative and support | 13 |
| Other services | 9 |
| Other | 21 |
Where the names in Spain's company register come from, estimated by a name-origin model and adjusted to Spain's own mix. These are expected counts, not people with a documented move, and no individual is labelled by them.
| Name origin | Expected people |
|---|---|
| Peru | 170,000 |
| Colombia | 130,000 |
| Romania | 17,000 |
| France | 5,300 |
| China | 4,700 |
| Switzerland | 3,600 |
| Germany | 3,000 |
| Sweden | 2,800 |
| Belgium | 2,700 |
| Italy | 2,500 |
| Poland | 2,300 |
| Ukraine | 2,300 |
| Other | 34,000 |
Based on 623,309 names whose origin the model can place; 2,473,584 names common to many countries are counted but not assigned. How this is estimated.
Read with care. In Spain, about 61% of the estimated name origins point to other countries. Where a population was built by immigration, much of that is simply what its names' ancestry is: it is not a count of migrants. The estimate is also adjusted toward the nationalities Spain's register records, and registers that record nationality mainly for foreigners pull it further abroad.
Abroad, 985,897 people from Spain are documented in 239 other countries.
| Host country | People |
|---|---|
| United States | 323,407 |
| United Kingdom | 279,884 |
| France | 160,771 |
| Germany | 102,556 |
| Switzerland | 55,873 |
| Netherlands | 54,946 |
| Italy | 52,802 |
| Belgium | 32,250 |
| Ireland | 31,071 |
| Sweden | 27,334 |
| Canada | 23,682 |
| Portugal | 23,607 |
| Mexico | 21,509 |
| Brazil | 21,073 |
| Argentina | 19,714 |
| Australia | 15,985 |
| Denmark | 15,481 |
| Chile | 14,554 |
| Colombia | 10,876 |
| Finland | 10,851 |
| Poland | 8,905 |
| Japan | 8,874 |
| Austria | 8,674 |
| India | 8,487 |
| Norway | 8,101 |
| China | 7,440 |
| Peru | 6,277 |
| Luxembourg | 5,642 |
| Czechia | 5,343 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4,551 |
| Singapore | 4,164 |
| South Africa | 3,607 |
| Israel | 3,392 |
| Bulgaria | 3,353 |
| Andorra | 3,215 |
| Venezuela | 3,063 |
| Hungary | 3,054 |
| Türkiye | 2,860 |
| Hong Kong | 2,843 |
| Greece | 2,597 |
| Other | 58,710 |
Spain's company register lists 5,700,671 officer rows, 6,519 with a stated nationality (self-stamp rate 0.84; above 0.98 the field is ignored as it only repeats the register's own country).
Some company details from this register are incomplete in the current build; the people counts are not affected.
Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".
How many company officers abroad carry names that a name-origin model places in Spain. This includes people whose families left generations ago, which the documented counts above cannot see. These are expected counts, not people, and no individual is labelled by them.
| Host country | Expected people |
|---|---|
| United States † | 7,600 |
| Colombia | 1,800 |
| Switzerland | 920 |
| Belgium | 780 |
| Hungary | 240 |
| Chile | 160 |
| Austria | 160 |
| South Africa | 150 |
| Canada † | 150 |
| China | 120 |
| Croatia | 110 |
| Peru | 80 |
| New Zealand † | 80 |
| Honduras | 40 |
| Mauritius | 40 |
| Ireland | 30 |
| Greece | 30 |
| Iceland | 20 |
| Panama † | 20 |
| Tanzania | 20 |
| Morocco | 20 |
| Israel | 20 |
| Montenegro | 10 |
| Nigeria | 10 |
| Vietnam | 10 |
| Ukraine | 7 |
| Albania | 5 |
| Samoa † | 5 |
| Cambodia | 5 |
| Other | 20 |
Registers where the estimate fails, or cannot take, a check against recorded nationality are left out, among them France, United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia, Germany, Argentina. † marks a host where most names point abroad; read its figure as ancestry, not migration. How this is estimated.
Aggregate statistics from official company registers, ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata, compiled by compatriots.net · data build v3_20261103. No individual is named on this page. See methodology & privacy.
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