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Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran

Foreign students. By place of origin. Counties and Aran School year 2017/2018
European Union Rest of Europe Maghreb Rest of Africa North America Central and South America Asia and Oceania Total
Alt Camp 202 63 629 37 1 91 30 1,053
Alt Empordà 966 170 2,630 291 3 883 157 5,100
Alt Penedès 226 104 1,599 76 11 330 164 2,510
Alt Urgell 150 201 60 13 1 117 17 559
Alta Ribagorça 24 12 24 0 0 9 2 71
Anoia 231 74 1,012 99 1 199 118 1,734
Aran 117 8 30 1 2 65 4 227
Bages 538 183 1,918 250 5 418 251 3,563
Baix Camp 1,249 237 3,063 153 12 792 292 5,798
Baix Ebre 627 120 975 42 5 194 224 2,187
Baix Empordà 692 264 2,219 207 7 515 125 4,029
Baix Llobregat 2,000 598 4,181 439 54 3,017 1,605 11,894
Baix Penedès 470 98 1,390 14 6 297 131 2,406
Barcelonès 6,492 3,352 6,449 1,394 383 17,297 15,404 50,771
Berguedà 146 23 263 13 5 117 32 599
Cerdanya 73 37 31 16 1 154 12 324
Conca de Barberà 127 32 193 26 0 21 27 426
Garraf 833 96 692 39 22 510 164 2,356
Garrigues 193 5 153 29 0 12 9 401
Garrotxa 241 93 230 184 3 195 404 1,350
Gironès 1,080 384 2,378 1,345 37 1,951 556 7,731
Maresme 1,091 393 3,628 1,017 42 1,330 936 8,437
Moianès 24 8 21 43 0 28 23 147
Montsià 968 136 547 18 1 169 122 1,961
Noguera 387 35 390 144 0 68 19 1,043
Osona 507 98 2,197 804 6 398 535 4,545
Pallars Jussà 98 17 114 18 0 61 13 321
Pallars Sobirà 47 0 11 1 0 25 2 86
Pla d'Urgell 510 35 517 153 0 69 35 1,319
Pla de l'Estany 157 23 389 263 1 120 66 1,019
Priorat 59 12 91 0 0 8 3 173
Ribera d'Ebre 221 30 262 1 1 28 23 566
Ripollès 47 11 202 3 0 83 22 368
Segarra 407 263 226 221 2 70 26 1,215
Segrià 1,822 240 2,204 882 9 684 333 6,174
Selva 1,167 477 1,270 456 12 684 645 4,711
Solsonès 92 14 135 4 0 18 5 268
Tarragonès 1,418 475 3,090 445 21 1,079 672 7,200
Terra Alta 172 1 15 0 3 11 23 225
Urgell 383 115 601 118 0 82 37 1,336
Vallès Occidental 2,014 615 6,925 1,279 105 4,470 1,684 17,092
Vallès Oriental 689 276 2,088 916 24 1,287 518 5,798
Catalonia 28,957 9,428 55,042 11,454 786 37,956 25,470 170,141
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.