Moroccan Workers Lead Foreign Labor Force in Spain, Topping 265,000

Local workers top the ranking. They are followed by Moroccans, Chinese (108,598), Colombians (75,048) and Ecuadorians (73,543), the same source said in a statement.

Over the first eleven months of 2019, 2,123,454 foreigners were affiliated with the Spanish social security system, an increase of 7.19% compared to the same period of the previous year for 142,374 more active people.

Some 1,268,384 foreign workers contributing to the Spanish social security system are from non-EU countries and 855,070 are from EU countries. In addition, the number of foreign registrants, on a monthly basis, fell by 1.22% last November, or 26,317 fewer people than a month earlier, the ministry said.

However, the number of foreigners registered under the general social security scheme reached 1,773,130 people at the end of November, while that of those registered under the self-employed scheme stood at 345,792 people. As of January 1 this year, the number of Moroccans legally established in Spain was estimated at 812,412 people, an increase of 5.4% compared to a year earlier, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).