Law 4/1996, of 10 January, which modified Regulating Law 7/1985, of 2 April, of the basis for the Local Regime regarding the Municipal Register, establishes that the General State Administration shall create a Register of Spaniards resident abroad (PERE). Those persons registered in this Register shall be considered neighbours of the Spanish Municipality that appears in their registration only for purposes of the exercise of the right to suffrage, in no case constituting the population of the Municipality.
In turn, the Regulation on Population and Territorial Demarkation of Local Entities establishes that the PERE shall be comprised of the data existing in the Registration Register of each Consular Office or Consular Section of the Diplomatic Missions. The Consular Offices and Sections shall submit, to the National Statistics Institute (INE), the information necessary for the compilation and maintenance of a central file of Spaniards resident abroad.
Now that the transfer of data between the Consular Offices or Sections and the INE has been standardised, it is possible to offer statistical information on Spaniards resident abroad beginning with the PERE at 1 January 2009
Population figures
Register of Spaniards Resident Abroad (PERE)
Results
Last data published: Data at 1st January 2010 (29th April 2010)