Foreign affiliates to Social Security fell 0.1% in October compared to September, registering an average of 3,053 fewer affiliates than the previous month. Workers from outside Spain registered in the system, as reported this Tuesday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration and reported by Europa Press and Efe.
Of the almost 2.7 million employed immigrants counted in the country in October, 55.7% were men, compared to 44.3% who were women. The drop in the average number of foreigners registered with Social Security in October marked a return to the downward trend, after in September of this year foreign contributors increased by 10,462.
In seasonally adjusted terms, the affiliation of foreigners to the Spanish Social Security system increased by 14,403 contributors in October, reaching 2,683,504 workers. This figure exceeds that registered before the arrival of the pandemic, with 494,083 more foreign affiliates.
The countries of origin
In the last twelve months, the average affiliation of foreign workers increased by 9% and added 221,431 affiliations, according to data released this Tuesday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. 83.3% of the employed with 2,248,483 workers belong to the general regime, so much so that in the self-employed regime there were 430,042 foreign affiliates, of which 14.8% come from China, 10.9% from Romania and 9% from Italy.
By sector, education has added the largest number of employed people (19.3%), along with construction (2.6%) and the agrarian system (2.7%), while in October there have been decreases in affiliation in the public administration ( 5.3%) and agriculture, livestock, hunting, forestry and fishing (5.8%).
Of the group, 55.7% of foreign members are men and 44.3% are women. According to origin, 32.8% of the workers come from the European Union (879,986) and the other 67.2% from third countries (1,803,951).
The largest groups of employed people.
The most numerous groups of foreign workers are Romanians (337,762), followers of Moroccans (317,034), Italians (180,729), Colombians 171,696) and Venezuelans (145,926).
For their part, members from Ukraine added 66,002 members in October, a figure that has grown by 40%, or 18,743 more workers, compared to January 2022 when the war had not yet started. In seasonally adjusted terms, the number of foreign affiliates registered this month was 2,683,504, which is 14,403 more affiliates than in September.
