- The region recorded an inter-monthly increase of 1.06% in April, incorporating 6,834 new affiliates to the system.
- The Community of Madrid accounts for 19.78% of the total number of foreign workers affiliated in Spain, down two points in year-on-year terms.
- The trade and hospitality sectors host more than 30% of foreign workers in Madrid
- In the country as a whole, there is a new record with more than 3,248,000 foreign affiliates, after an increase of almost 100,000 in the last month.
The Social Security has registered in the Community of Madrid 642,634 foreign affiliates on average in April, after adding 42,628 affiliates in the last 12 months, which means an increase of 6.63%. In month-on-month terms, growth was 1.06% compared to March, with 6,834 new affiliates.
Of the total, 52.66% (338,422) are men, while 47.33% (304,209) are women. As for the countries of origin, the distribution resembles the national panorama with 30.17% (194,325) from countries of the European Union that descends by 385 people, while 69.82% (441,501) come from outside the European Union with an increase of 7,203, 1.60% more than last month.
By contribution system, 79.38% (510.137) contribute to the General Social Security System, which has attracted 4,836 contributors this month. For its part, the number of foreign self-employed members in the region in April stood at 80,104 workers, with an increase of 711 members as self-employed compared to the previous month and an annual increase of 2,856 foreign self-employed by 3.56% compared to last year.
The total number of foreign self-employed workers is 12.46% of all those working in the Community of Madrid, very similar to last year. As for the Special System of Domestic Workers, there are 51,297 workers, of whom more than 95% are women, reaching 48,961 women; 72.7% of them come from outside the European Union.
If we consider the sectors, commerce and hospitality account for 30.26% of foreign workers. Highlight the strength of the sector of administrative activities that reaches more than 89,000 foreign professionals, as well as the professional, scientific and technical activities where 41,805 work. Construction is another of the key sectors for these workers where 72,932 workers from Madrid are employed.
The Community of Madrid accounts for 19.78% of the total number of foreign workers affiliated in Spain, down almost two percentage points from last year.
New record of foreign affiliates
Nationally, it has once again recorded a new record of foreign affiliates in both the original, medium, and seasonally adjusted series. Specifically, there are 3,248,247 affiliates on average in April, which is 96,684 more occupied than in the previous month and 250,939 more than a year ago.
This figure puts the year-on-year variation at 8.4%, when the year-on-year variation in global membership is 2.4%. If the seasonality and the effect of the calendar are discounted, Social Security already has 3,233,241 foreign affiliates, after adding 249,780 in the last 12 months.
Overall, the number of foreign affiliates has totaled more than 890,000 employed since April 2022. In fact, 42.9% of the employment created since the implementation of the labor reform corresponds to foreign workers.
Average affiliation
Of the 3,250,000 foreign affiliates, 1.85 million are men, while the number of women exceeds 1.4 million for the first time. The presence of working women from other countries is increasing overall and represents 43.1% of the total number of foreign workers. About 30% of foreign affiliates come from European Union countries.
Morocco continues to be the country with the most social security affiliates and already exceeds 400,000 contributors (404,402). It is followed by Romania (346,719), Colombia (275,695), Venezuela (224,428), Italy (214,970), China (129,207), Peru (109,146) and Ukraine (81,707). Of these nationalities, the increase in Venezuelan affiliates stands out, which have multiplied by 10 in the last decade.