Spanish diaspora

The Spanish diaspora consists of Spanish people and their descendants who emigrated from Spain.

In the Americas, the term most often refers to residents with Spanish nationality; this is in contrast to "Hispanic" which in English usually describes Spanish-speaking populations in general.

The diaspora is concentrated in places that were part of the Spanish Empire. Countries with sizeable populations are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil, Belize, Haiti, United States, Canada, the Philippines and wider Europe.

According to the latest data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística's Register of Spaniards Resident Abroad (PERE), "the number of people with Spanish nationality living abroad reached 2,908,649 on January 1, 2024, an increase of 4.2% (118,332 people) with respect to the data from the same day last year". However, most of them are naturalized citizens returning to their countries of origin or remigrating elsewhere; only about 855,000 natural born Spaniards (about 2% of the population) live overseas.