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Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran

Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran School year 2023/2024
European Union Rest of Europe Maghreb Rest of Africa North America Central and South America Asia and Oceania Total
Alt Camp 212 68 628 72 3 215 58 1,256
Alt Empordà 985 319 2,421 345 16 1,346 210 5,642
Alt Penedès 227 153 1,253 111 6 555 175 2,480
Alt Urgell 124 145 77 32 0 258 15 651
Alta Ribagorça 15 18 40 0 1 31 3 108
Anoia 275 85 1,222 146 3 531 161 2,423
Aran 95 10 49 3 0 138 3 298
Bages 566 286 2,567 299 11 1,279 364 5,372
Baix Camp 1,237 521 2,835 201 13 1,432 396 6,635
Baix Ebre 624 121 1,014 135 3 403 344 2,644
Baix Empordà 739 486 2,017 269 16 996 128 4,651
Baix Llobregat 2,569 993 3,500 560 86 6,596 2,190 16,494
Baix Penedès 681 270 1,391 28 13 784 198 3,365
Barcelonès 10,415 5,779 5,623 1,589 662 31,234 17,385 72,687
Berguedà 312 47 301 22 7 360 40 1,089
Cerdanya 56 43 46 34 5 335 18 537
Conca de Barberà 106 40 213 15 0 41 27 442
Garraf 1,102 243 624 31 37 896 211 3,144
Garrigues 194 10 248 75 2 45 17 591
Garrotxa 248 165 334 191 8 635 413 1,994
Gironès 1,177 452 2,117 1,233 67 2,573 658 8,277
Lluçanès 6 0 11 7 0 33 5 62
Maresme 1,681 933 3,331 944 73 2,410 1,115 10,487
Moianès 33 18 13 36 1 56 28 185
Montsià 893 174 745 96 2 409 153 2,472
Noguera 426 57 414 233 0 184 24 1,338
Osona 554 205 2,089 1,347 6 928 635 5,764
Pallars Jussà 104 30 84 9 0 133 7 367
Pallars Sobirà 53 4 19 1 0 39 2 118
Pla d'Urgell 551 51 624 225 0 171 28 1,650
Pla de l'Estany 161 33 281 159 2 205 52 893
Priorat 57 19 78 12 0 22 5 193
Ribera d'Ebre 187 37 276 30 1 40 42 613
Ripollès 52 18 304 4 1 229 46 654
Segarra 383 231 226 397 0 116 18 1,371
Segrià 3,076 512 2,954 1,201 9 2,505 575 10,832
Selva 1,263 1,133 1,311 434 24 1,211 611 5,987
Solsonès 119 27 160 13 2 51 11 383
Tarragonès 1,644 950 3,259 503 29 2,298 776 9,459
Terra Alta 166 3 35 1 0 72 28 305
Urgell 463 146 656 159 4 156 40 1,624
Vallès Occidental 2,733 1,233 6,854 1,250 192 7,901 2,506 22,669
Vallès Oriental 939 440 1,887 806 33 2,256 696 7,057
Catalonia 37,503 16,508 54,131 13,258 1,338 72,108 30,417 225,263
Source: Departament d'Educació i Formació Professional
Note: El total de Catalunya inclou els alumnes estrangers matriculats a educació especial.

Last update: September 30, 2025.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

The data on infant, primary and secondary education is taken from an exploitation of the data provided by the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Education or teaching centres at all education levels. The public sector includes data for the centres that depend on the Ministry of Education and other public administrations, while the private sector deals with privately owned centres.

In 1990 the Law for general ordering of the education system (LOGSE) was passed, which modifies the previous education system (LGE) of 1970. In the 1991/92 academic year the teaching approved by the new law was gradually introduced and the 2000/01 academic year was the first in which none of the teaching relating to the previous education system was still in existence.

However, the two education models coexisted over the long period of experimentation and implantation of the new education law.

The data on centres and teaching staff is given, on the one hand, for infant and primary education as a whole, and on the other, for secondary education, although it is often the case that centres and teachers overlap in terms of the different levels given.

The data on special education presented here corresponds to specific special education centres and specific special education groups located in ordinary centres. Integrated pupils are excluded.

The centres that provide specialist education in music, applied arts and design, dance, languages, dramatic art and the restoration and conservation of cultural assets are also in the process of adaptation to new curricular designs regulated by the implantation of the LOGSE.

The figures referring to adult education refer to students in public centres and classes that depend on the Ministry of Education.

Data are provisional.