The average affiliation of foreign workers to Social Security recorded in October an increase of 63,899 people compared with September, which implies a monthly advance of 1.8% and raises the total to a new historical record of 3,699,878 employed people.
Compared with the same month of last year, the volume of foreign contributors has grown by 598,378 workers, which implies a year-on-year increase of 19.3%, according to data released this Friday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations.
The presence of foreign employees in the system, which already account for 16.4% of all affiliates, maintains a steady expansion path, also favored by the extraordinary regularization process initiated in April.
As of October 30, the number of people of foreign nationality registered with Social Security thanks to this procedure reached 490,586.
Of this total, 75.2% were contributing to the General Regime of Social Security and 5.9% did so in the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers, excluding the SETA. By gender, 59.7% were men and 40.3% women.
Since 2022, the number of foreign affiliates has increased by more than 1.2 million employed people. As the Ministry has emphasized, more than half of the employment generated since the entry into force of the labor reform corresponds to workers of foreign origin, specifically 51.1%.
In seasonally adjusted terms, October also ended at a historical high, with 3,699,281 foreign affiliates, that is, 598,282 more contributors than one year earlier.
By nationality, Morocco continues to be the main country of origin for foreign affiliates, with 446,584 contributors. Next are Colombia, with 399,294, Romania, with 339,925, Venezuela, with 250,726, and Italy, with 219,770.
The department headed by Migrations has highlighted that the year-on-year growth rate is especially intense among Colombian workers, with a surge of 59% and 148,210 additional affiliates, and among Venezuelans, whose trend has accelerated to 19.6%, after adding 41,012 more employed people since October of the previous year.