The Valencian Community has gained 40,066 people on the register this year, bringing the population to 5,003,769 people, according to data published by the Official State Gazette (BOE).
In Spain as a whole, a total of 303,228 more people Email Data were registered in the municipal register in 2018 in Spain, with an increase in registrations in all communities, except in Asturias, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Galicia.
The data that the BOE has released this week and that refers to the population registered in the municipal registry as of 1, 2019 indicates that 47,026,208 people were registered in 2018 compared to 46,722,980 the previous year.
Asturias, with 1,022,800 people in the census in 2018, lost 5,444 registered compared to 2017; Castilla y León, with 2,399,548, registered 9,616 fewer; Extremadura, with 1,067,710, had a decrease of 5,153, and Galicia, with 2,699,499, had 2,244 fewer.
In 2018, the greatest growth in the registered population took place in the Community of Madrid (6,663,394 registered), which means 85,315 more registered people; followed by Catalonia (7,675,217), 75,152 more; from the Valencian Community (5,003,769), 40,066 more, and from Andalusia (8,414,240), 29,832 more.
Regarding the autonomous cities, the BOE details that Ceuta had 84,777 people registered in the 2018 registry, which represents a decrease of 367 people in relation to 2017, while Melilla, with 86,487, had gained 103 registered.
According to the Official State Gazette, these figures will soon be published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which is the body to which city councils throughout Spain have sent the data from their municipal registers so that they can prepare this population census.