Spaniards registered abroad:
a trend that continues increasing

Irene de la Torre-Arenas | Dec. 10 2015

Visualization Technologies (Fall 2015). Mentored by Siqi Zhu and assisted by Armin Akhavan. | Northeastern University

The CERA Database of the Spanish Institute of Statistics collects the census of all the absent resident voters that are living outside Spain. Although it registers only the Spaniards living abroad permanently (which bureaucratically is when you live abroad more than a year) and therefore it doesn't represent the total amount of the citizens that do not live in Spain, the census captures one of the consequences of the financial crisis: Spaniards’ emigration is a growing trend.

Evolution of the Spanish absent resident voters by continents

Mouse over to know total amounts per month and continent

Where do the Spaniards go?

CERA Database registers Spaniards through consulates. A country can have more than one consulate (like France or USA) or, if it’s too small, have it in another country nearby (like Guyana). Although here the consulates are showed only by the name of the city, the census they do can collect different territories within the country. For example, Boston’s consulate registers Spaniards that are living in New England.

Evolution per continent, country and consulate

Data from each November

Click each button to update the information by year. Mouse over the slices to get the totals per year and the percentage of Spaniards living in each territory (continent, country or consulate). The radius of the diagram varies depending on the total number of Spaniards registered in the CERA database that year and the opacity of the slices of the outer part of the diagram (consulates) represents the variation year to year (if filled in grey, the percentage is negative).