The Xunta underlines that Galicia "is gaining population strongly" and has reached the highest level of inhabitants in the last 11 years, with 2.73 million residents as of April 1st of this year.
The Director General of Family, Jacobo Rey, intervened in a parliamentary commission to respond to a question posed by PP deputy Raquel Arias, "as a journalist and as a citizen".
Relying on statistics released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the head of the Galician government pointed out that "Galicia is somehow consolidating a demographic trend change, an important change compared to previous periods".
This demographic shift implies, he insisted, that "Galicia is gaining population strongly and constantly in recent quarters" and "it is not an isolated figure".
As he explained, it is a "constant growth that repeats over time". In the last year, Galicia's population increased by 14,000 people; in the last two years, by 24,500; and in the last three, by 31,600 inhabitants.
Likewise, he highlighted that this demographic advance "is not concentrated in a single province" and is distributed in both the Atlantic and eastern provinces.
"The community went from a population decrease to an increase in this decade," he summarized, adding a second reflection: these figures "also represent a very important and relevant improvement in the population projections that official statistical institutes had been making".
In his opinion, "behind these figures are the Xunta's public policies," which, among other measures he mentioned, "help to reinforce the attraction of population" and to "maintain very positive migration balances".