Migration in the Basque Country

In the past, there was quite a lot of emigration in the Basque Country as it has been considered as a poor country, for that single reason there are many Basque Associations around the world. The biggest concentration is in South America, in Argentina for example there are over 80.

Nowadays, the opposite happens, since the 1960s there's more people immigrating than people emigrating. During the XXth century the biggest part of the immigrants were Spanish, for that reason there are many from Extremadura, for example, in towns like Lasarte, Errenteria etc.

In the Basque country the biggest immigrant group is from Marocco, and the second from Rumania.