At the 1991 census, there were only 845,977 foreign-born people living in Spain. At the 2001 census, the number of foreign-born people had already reached 2,172,201, and by the 2011 census there were 6,307,277 foreign-born people living in Spain.
Meanwhile, the Spanish-born population of Spain, which was 38,026,291 at the 1991 census, rose to 38,675,170 people at the 2001 census, and 40,508,639 people at the 2011 census. Note that the Spanish-born population includes the children of immigrants born on Spanish soil, so it's quite likely that the Spanish-born population born of Spanish parents remained stagnant between 1991 and 2011.
In terms of percentages, 2.2% of the population of Spain were foreign-born in 1991, a figure which rose to 5.3% in 2001, and 13.5% in 2011.
The number of foreign-born people in Spain is now decreasing due to the crisis. The Spanish statistical office estimates that on Jan. 1, 2013, there were 6,157,730 foreign-born people living in Spain, down from 6,307,277 at the Nov. 1, 2011 census. The number of Spanish-born people has gone from 40,508,639 people at the Nov. 1, 2011 census to 40,546,584 on Jan. 1, 2013. The percentage of foreign-born people went from 13.5% at the Nov. 1, 2011 census to 13.2% on Jan. 1, 2013.
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