Alicante has picked up more than 23,000 new residents in the first half of 2025.
Almost all of them, 95%, came from abroad.
Fresh figures from the Continuous Population Statistics (ECP) show that by 1 July, the province had 2,053,621 inhabitants, up from 2,030,298 at the start of the year. That’s a 1.15% rise in just six months. But here’s the telling bit: foreigners added 22,286 to the tally, while Spanish nationals only contributed a rather shy 1,037.
Foreign residents went up by 3.79% in half a year. Locals managed a microscopic 0.07%. All in, just under one in three people in Alicante now hails from another country, 609,941 of them.
This surge is part of the reason the Valencian Community saw the second-fastest population growth in Spain in the second quarter of the year (0.50%), beaten only by Aragón. Across the region, there are now 5,467,242 residents, 4,119,497 Spanish and 1,347,745 foreign, spread across Valencia (2,781,132), Castellón (632,489) and Alicante (2,053,621).
The rest of Spain is seeing similar patterns. In the second quarter alone, the country gained people in every autonomous community except Melilla, where numbers dipped. The biggest increases were in Aragón (0.91%), the Valencian Community (0.50%) and the Balearic Islands (0.42%).
Nationally, Spain hit a new population record on 1 July 2025: 49,315,949 residents. The population grew by 119,811 in just three months, and by more than half a million over the past year. Foreigners made up most of that jump, with 95,277 newcomers bringing their total to 7,050,174. The Spanish-born population grew by a more modest 24,534.
