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Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran

Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran School year 2016/2017
European Union Rest of Europe Maghreb Rest of Africa North America Central and South America Asia and Oceania Total
Alt Camp 220 53 624 30 0 89 22 1,038
Alt Empordà 985 177 2,466 285 6 823 153 4,895
Alt Penedès 203 90 1,499 66 5 348 136 2,347
Alt Urgell 148 251 56 4 2 104 19 584
Alta Ribagorça 29 11 26 3 0 7 2 78
Anoia 233 68 1,005 112 0 188 114 1,720
Aran 111 7 41 15 0 60 4 238
Bages 524 180 1,748 227 5 393 246 3,323
Baix Camp 1,189 218 2,906 144 11 738 267 5,473
Baix Ebre 626 131 961 41 5 197 218 2,179
Baix Empordà 726 281 2,138 205 7 537 112 4,006
Baix Llobregat 1,754 548 3,892 348 37 2,694 1,436 10,709
Baix Penedès 644 161 1,470 82 24 1,032 197 3,610
Barcelonès 5,634 2,948 5,878 1,266 348 15,319 14,365 45,758
Berguedà 127 18 248 10 4 110 32 549
Cerdanya 85 41 26 11 1 139 10 313
Conca de Barberà 134 27 178 28 0 19 20 406
Garraf 819 115 655 59 25 480 164 2,317
Garrigues 221 10 171 49 0 64 15 530
Garrotxa 219 76 238 183 2 186 372 1,276
Gironès 1,007 368 2,253 1,265 25 1,742 489 7,149
Maresme 958 323 3,476 939 40 1,189 797 7,722
Moianès 26 8 20 38 0 27 22 141
Montsià 911 138 493 19 1 151 116 1,829
Noguera 369 36 361 126 0 58 18 968
Osona 491 90 2,130 706 6 348 481 4,252
Pallars Jussà 125 15 134 23 0 56 10 363
Pallars Sobirà 43 1 11 1 1 25 2 84
Pla d'Urgell 453 29 497 133 1 78 35 1,226
Pla de l'Estany 161 23 372 267 1 99 69 992
Priorat 63 12 77 0 2 6 3 163
Ribera d'Ebre 228 26 247 1 1 24 25 552
Ripollès 81 14 212 12 0 93 16 428
Segarra 389 261 224 203 1 67 31 1,176
Segrià 1,782 221 1,987 815 5 619 322 5,751
Selva 1,115 419 1,252 462 9 647 606 4,510
Solsonès 100 12 140 5 0 18 4 279
Tarragonès 1,323 443 2,910 427 17 968 600 6,688
Terra Alta 166 2 14 0 2 10 22 216
Urgell 379 110 621 158 2 192 46 1,508
Vallès Occidental 1,827 533 6,511 1,187 113 4,031 1,510 15,712
Vallès Oriental 661 243 2,015 840 25 1,209 475 5,468
Catalonia 27,289 8,738 52,183 10,795 734 35,184 23,603 159,509
Source: Ministry of Education.
Note: El total de Catalunya inclou els alumnes estrangers matriculats a educació especial.

Last update: June 30, 2020.

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.