Afro-Spaniards

Although no official census data include racial or ethnic self-identification in Spain, some attempts have been made to quantify the number of Afro-Spaniards. Crossing the data of two official studies,^[1][2] there are at least 1,029,944 Spaniards with origins from continental Africa, of whom 47 percent were born in Spain and 71 percent are Spanish nationals.^[3]

There are currently 1,301,296 Spanish residents who were born in continental Africa, excluding the 1,802,810 born in Ceuta, Melilla, and the Canary Islands, which are Spanish territories geographically located in the Maghreb. Of these, 294,343 are Spanish citizens and 1,006,953 are foreign residents.

The large majority of those with origins in continental Africa are from Morocco. There are 934,046 Moroccan-born residents in Spain, of whom 223,590 are Spaniards and 710,457 are foreign residents.

Because Moroccans are Arabs, Berbers, and Andalusians, Moroccans are not considered ‘Afro-Spaniards’ (with an exception of the one-percent minority of Moroccans who may have visible physical features typically associated with the various Black peoples of West Africa).^[4]

Afro-Spaniards (mainly Senegalese and Nigerians in Spain), therefore, number 367,250 people, of whom 70,753 are Spanish citizens and 296,497 are foreign residents.^[5][6]

According to the National Statistics Agency, in 2019, there were 361,000 residents in Spain whose mother was born in an African country (excluding Morocco). Of these, 91,000 were Spanish citizens.^[7]

• African immigration to Europe
• Afro-Hispanic people
• Algerians in Spain
• Equatorial Guinean immigration to Spain
• Fernandino peoples
• Moroccans in Spain
• Racism in Spain
• Spanish Equatoguineans
• Spanish Guinea

• Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.(1999). Africana: the Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books, pp. 1769–1773. ISBN 0-465-00071-1.