Only 2.5 of the 8 million inhabitants of Catalonia have both parents born in the community. In total, the percentage of immigrants and descendants reaches 65% of the population.
“With a restrictive definition of what it means to be or not to be Catalan, the Catalan population will be reduced to a minority ethnic group in its territory,” says an expert. The first child of Catalan mothers arrives at an average age of 31.5 in Catalonia, much later than in 1975.