Spain

Spain is the most favoured European destination for Britons leaving the UK.[30] Since 2000, Spain has absorbed more than three million immigrants, growing its population by almost 10%. Immigrant population now tops over 4.5 million. According to residence permit data for 2005, about 500,000 were Moroccan, another 500,000 were Ecuadorian,[31] more than 200,000 were Romanian, and 260,000 were Colombian.[32][33] In 2005 alone, a regularisation programme increased the legal immigrant population by 700,000 people