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Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran

Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties, areas and provinces School year 2008/2009
European Union Rest of Europe Maghreb Rest of Africa North America Central and South America Asia and Oceania Total
Alt Camp 229 60 430 12 0 230 12 973
Alt Empordà 1,003 198 1,742 206 11 1,363 84 4,607
Alt Penedès 148 75 1,081 19 3 826 65 2,217
Alt Urgell 174 253 43 2 0 218 9 699
Alta Ribagorça 30 5 10 0 0 27 1 73
Anoia 249 101 859 52 10 571 70 1,912
Bages 494 126 1,472 135 5 994 161 3,387
Baix Camp 1,052 217 2,087 67 11 1,683 224 5,341
Baix Ebre 819 157 858 16 5 402 139 2,396
Baix Empordà 728 196 1,696 152 7 780 96 3,655
Baix Llobregat 1,283 387 3,497 185 44 6,361 535 12,292
Baix Penedès 345 80 1,196 22 5 796 50 2,494
Barcelonès 3,048 1,863 4,716 858 213 26,519 8,079 45,296
Berguedà 130 20 243 5 1 249 20 668
Cerdanya 83 42 10 14 2 275 2 428
Conca de Barberà 95 27 145 4 1 84 20 376
Garraf 670 115 557 28 4 1,063 81 2,518
Garrigues 165 4 78 7 0 30 24 308
Garrotxa 162 47 226 381 8 253 343 1,420
Gironès 698 250 1,778 1,028 10 1,824 300 5,888
Maresme 761 234 2,906 938 33 2,441 412 7,725
Montsià 859 148 307 11 2 489 56 1,872
Noguera 355 51 312 60 1 200 25 1,004
Osona 306 68 2,359 154 7 782 247 3,923
Pallars Jussà 81 22 60 11 0 137 2 313
Pallars Sobirà 60 3 13 1 0 101 1 179
Pla d'Urgell 321 33 322 47 0 197 38 958
Pla de l'Estany 118 31 194 357 8 142 40 890
Priorat 71 6 60 0 0 32 3 172
Ribera d'Ebre 280 25 164 3 0 77 18 567
Ripollès 56 7 157 1 4 131 11 367
Segarra 352 163 221 122 1 111 11 981
Segrià 1,262 234 1,112 638 3 1,309 203 4,761
Selva 1,048 335 827 463 7 1,196 306 4,182
Solsonès 66 16 218 3 0 88 5 396
Tarragonès 1,133 315 2,120 249 19 2,273 249 6,358
Terra Alta 127 2 5 0 0 20 4 158
Urgell 282 71 397 85 0 205 28 1,068
Val d'Aran 77 9 27 1 2 119 0 235
Vallès Occidental 1,235 471 4,347 620 68 7,825 657 15,223
Vallès Oriental 574 240 1,838 630 20 3,192 249 6,743
Catalonia 21,029 6,707 40,690 7,587 515 65,615 12,880 155,023
Metropolità 7,719 3,385 18,942 3,278 385 48,227 10,078 92,014
Comarques Gironines 3,813 1,064 6,620 2,588 55 5,689 1,180 21,009
Camp de Tarragona 2,925 705 6,038 354 36 5,098 558 15,714
Terres de l'Ebre 2,085 332 1,334 30 7 988 217 4,993
Ponent 2,737 556 2,442 959 5 2,052 329 9,080
Comarques Centrals 1,245 331 5,151 349 23 2,684 503 10,286
Alt Pirineu i Aran 505 334 163 29 4 877 15 1,927
Barcelona 8,898 3,700 23,875 3,624 408 50,823 10,576 101,904
Girona 3,896 1,106 6,630 2,602 57 5,964 1,182 21,437
Lleida 3,225 864 2,813 977 7 2,742 347 10,975
Tarragona 5,010 1,037 7,372 384 43 6,086 775 20,707
Source: Departament d'Educació. Servei d'Estadística, Informació i Documentació.

Last update: May 12, 2010.

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.