Impact of foreign population on the evolution and age structure of the population of the municipality of Malaga

Abstract

The foreign population registered in the municipality of Malaga has experienced an important increase, reaching 8,27% in 2010, and on it’s growth lies the reason of the bulk of the increase that the population of the municipality has experienced since 2003. Foreigners are not distributed in a homogeneous way in the urban tissue and, in this context, the aim of this paper is to investigate the influence that the arrival of these population has had on the resident population in 2003 in two aspects: the first one, on the behaviour of the total volume of population; the second one, on the age structure of the pre-existing population. The information that we have used comes from the “padrones” corresponding to the year 2003 and 2010, obtained from the Municipality of Malaga, and the spatial unit we have used is the neighbourhood.