The Argentine National Institute of Statistics and Censuses revealed the number of compatriots who are living in the neighboring country.
He National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) of Argentina published this month the final results of the section “Migrations: international and internal”, corresponding to the National Census of Population, Households and Housing, which was carried out in 2022.
In it, it is detailed that in the neighboring country 1,933,463 people live in private homes born in another country, representing 4.2% of the total population. Uruguayans make up the sixth largest community of foreigners in the Argentina.
In the breakdown, Uruguayans represented 4.9% of the total foreign immigrants in Argentinasurpassing Italy and Brazil, with 3.5% and 2.6%, respectively. At a total level, the number of Orientals is 95,384 people, ahead of the 68,169 Italians and the 49,943 Brazilians.
TO Uruguay they get over it Chiliwith 149,082 migrants; Peruwith 156,251; Venezuelawith 161,495; Bolivia, with 338,299; and Paraguay, with a total of 522,598 people. However, the percentage of Uruguayans in Argentina It represents 2.8% of its total population, a figure higher than most countries.
Indec explains that, in recent years, the European immigrant population, especially Spaniards and Italians, showed an aging due to the sharp decrease in the flow of immigration of these groups since 1960. Something that happens, to a lesser extent, with immigrants of Uruguay and Chile.
How many Argentines live in Uruguay?
Without the definitive data from the 2023 Census of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) It is difficult to estimate exactly how many Argentines live in Uruguay. According to the INE itself, between 2012 and 2023, some 61,810 people arrived in the country, of which some 13,598 (22%) were Argentine citizens.
According to United Nations Organization (UN)to the year 2020 Uruguay It had more than 108,000 immigrants living in its territory, of which more than 33,000 were Argentinian, although, according to projections, this figure could be much higher. According to data from the Municipality of Maldonadoit is estimated that in that department alone there would be about 25,000 Argentines living.
In the years 2020 and 2021, as a result of the economic crisis and health restrictions due to the pandemic in Argentinaapplications for Uruguayan residences by Argentines skyrocketed, however, during 2022 and 2023, the number of procedures was lower.
Source: Ambito
