# Costa bucks trend with increase in foreign population

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Costa bucks trend with increase in foreign population
 National figure falls for first time since 1996 but Málaga shows rise
 
 
 MÁLAGA province had a 3.1 per cent increase in foreign residents last year, despite the nationwide figure posting a decline for the first time since 1996.
 
 Data released last week by the National Statistics Institute (INE), based on municipal ‘padrón' censuses as of January 1, 2012, show that in Málaga province there were 292,257 foreigners, up from 283,498 a year earlier and representing 17.8 per cent of the total population.
 
 Nationwide, the total number of resident foreigners dropped by 15,229 people, a very slight decline of 0.3 per cent but significant in that it marked the first drop since the current records began to be kept.
 
 The Costa's bucking of the national trend may be in part due to the relatively high proportion of EU nationals, as opposed to non-EU immigrants, among the province's foreign population. The nationwide drop of 15,229 resident foreigners was the result of an exodus of non-EU immigrants, whose numbers dropped by 63,496.
 
 Also, campaigns by Costa town halls encouraging foreign residents to register on their local padrón may have helped to boost the official foreign population as some people who were already living here became registered for the first time.