The membership of foreigners in the Community of Madrid increased by more than 4% in 2025

• The number of contributors in the region at year-end was 631,422 in the original series.
• In Spain, Social Security closed the year with almost 3.1 million foreign affiliates, after adding 204,659 people in the last twelve months.

Social Security registered in the Community of Madrid a figure of 631,422 foreign affiliates at the end of 2025, according to the data of the annual membership balance published by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. This represents an increase of 4.3% from the 605,180 recorded at the end of 2024. Especially significant is the increase in non-EU contributors, with an increase of over 6%, to 396,665 from 373,959 in 2024.

Record data at the national level

In the country as a whole, Social Security ended the year with almost 3.1 million foreign affiliates, after adding 204,659 employed in 2025. Eight consecutive months are thus linked to more than three million affiliates from other countries, with the largest number of foreign contributors in the historical series.

Of the total number of foreign affiliates, about 1.8 million are men, while the number of women exceeds 1.3 million, after growing by about 6% compared to 2024. Women already account for 43 per cent of the total number of foreign workers. 29.9% of foreign affiliates come from European Union countries. By nationality, Morocco remains the main country of origin, followed by Romania, Colombia, Venezuela, Italy and China.

The Venezuelan workers, the collective that grows the most

Among the different nationalities, workers from Venezuela are the fastest growing group in the last year, with 215,735 members, which is 40,614 more than in December 2024, an increase of 23.2%. They are followed by Colombia, with 28,929 more members, and Morocco, with an increase of 26,839 people. Morocco is the country from which the largest number of workers affiliated to Social Security come, with 373,436 contributors, followed by Romania (336,530), Colombia (250,248), Venezuela (215,735), Italy (204,700), China (128,113), Peru (101,144) and Ukraine (78,456).

In the last year, the growth of foreign affiliation has been especially intense in Asturias, Extremadura and Galicia, autonomous communities where the weight of foreign workers over the total number of contributors is still below the national average.

“Spain is a country that welcomes, but also a country that attracts talent, effort and entrepreneurship. Foreign people choose our country to live, work and contribute to common welfare,” said Minister Elma Saiz.

General Social Security System

The contribution of foreign workers is particularly relevant in some sectors of the General Social Security System. In Hospitality, they represent 28.8% of the members; in Agriculture, 26%; in Construction, they represent 23.2%; and in Transport and Administrative Activities, 17.7%.

In Transport and Storage there is the highest year-on-year growth of foreign affiliation, with 26% more than a year ago, followed by Water Supply, Construction and Agriculture.

Along with these sectors, the presence of foreign workers continues to increase in activities of greater added value, such as Financial Activities, Health Activities, Information and Communications and Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities.

This advance is even more pronounced in highly qualified sectors, such as Information and Communications, Energy Supply, Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities and Financial and Insurance Activities.

Record growth of foreign self-employed workers

The growth of foreign affiliation is especially significant in self-employment. At the end of the year, the number of foreign self-employed workers reached 496,888, a new record high after growing by 6.3% year-on-year, well above the increase in the number of self-employed workers as a whole.

An even more sharp increase in highly qualified sectors. In the last year, the number of foreign self-employed workers has increased by 25.9% in Information and Communications, in Energy Supply, 22%, 19.2% in Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities and 14.2% in Financial and Insurance Activities.

Quality in the job created

Not only does it create more jobs, but it is also of higher quality for all workers. Thus, the open-ended full-time contracts of foreign workers have been the ones that have won the most since 2021, and they are already 58.5% of the total (+15pp). Likewise, the percentage of undefined part-time contracts increases from 12.9% to 19.2% of the total. However, temporary contracts experience a reduction: falling from 38.9%, which they assumed before the labor reform, to 12%.

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