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Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran

Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran School year 2015/2016
European Union Rest of Europe Maghreb Rest of Africa North America Central and South America Asia and Oceania Total
Alt Camp 227 53 632 31 0 92 20 1,055
Alt Empordà 995 186 2,718 298 6 880 159 5,242
Alt Penedès 197 92 1,502 58 0 380 121 2,350
Alt Urgell 149 257 54 6 2 101 21 590
Alta Ribagorça 23 11 27 0 1 11 2 75
Anoia 221 64 1,045 98 1 194 109 1,732
Aran 107 6 45 0 0 53 1 212
Bages 520 182 1,800 234 2 399 252 3,389
Baix Camp 1,195 216 3,091 139 9 767 277 5,694
Baix Ebre 627 138 1,039 38 4 221 214 2,281
Baix Empordà 676 245 2,153 190 6 492 103 3,865
Baix Llobregat 1,771 521 4,207 360 40 2,848 1,380 11,127
Baix Penedès 401 83 1,465 11 6 312 113 2,391
Barcelonès 5,332 2,781 6,230 1,401 297 16,295 13,951 46,287
Berguedà 141 14 275 13 4 105 31 583
Cerdanya 62 41 21 9 0 148 12 293
Conca de Barberà 124 28 193 23 0 15 24 407
Garraf 844 127 676 39 27 521 182 2,416
Garrigues 198 6 155 19 0 11 11 400
Garrotxa 202 75 216 185 3 154 374 1,209
Gironès 981 381 2,396 1,343 25 1,741 475 7,342
Maresme 913 302 3,544 963 37 1,236 689 7,684
Moianès 19 8 16 37 1 46 19 146
Montsià 886 138 555 18 1 165 123 1,886
Noguera 391 34 373 117 0 68 14 997
Osona 455 81 2,261 610 11 351 461 4,230
Pallars Jussà 101 14 133 20 0 51 9 328
Pallars Sobirà 46 3 13 1 1 25 2 91
Pla d'Urgell 482 33 501 134 3 86 33 1,272
Pla de l'Estany 170 21 349 285 2 92 62 981
Priorat 65 10 85 2 0 9 2 173
Ribera d'Ebre 251 28 281 3 1 31 31 626
Ripollès 53 10 216 3 0 75 13 370
Segarra 350 235 208 189 1 80 29 1,092
Segrià 1,777 221 2,071 868 4 674 304 5,919
Selva 1,089 420 1,233 428 13 649 612 4,444
Solsonès 81 15 176 7 0 26 3 308
Tarragonès 1,346 437 3,144 473 17 1,076 563 7,056
Terra Alta 172 1 16 0 1 14 19 223
Urgell 359 74 556 133 1 77 42 1,242
Vallès Occidental 1,724 521 6,824 1,267 88 4,359 1,397 16,180
Vallès Oriental 659 244 2,290 913 28 1,330 470 5,934
Catalonia 26,382 8,357 54,785 10,966 643 36,260 22,729 161,500
Source: Ministry of Education.
Note: El total de Catalunya inclou els alumnes estrangers matriculats a educació especial.

Last update: March 13, 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.