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ESTIMATED POPULATION BY PARISH The number of seasonal immigrat on
As % of total Chart 4.5 permits more than tripled, but have

2010 st ll not reached pre-pandemic levels.

Note the population increases in Canillo (7.9%)
and La Massana (3.9%), above the average,
while the other parishes saw more modest
increases, lower than overall. Encamp is the
parish where the population grew least (0.5%).

In Andorra la Vella, the most populated parish in
the Principality, population growth was 1.5%, so
its percentage of the total estimated population
of Andorra continues to decline, slowly but
2021 constantly, as recorded since 2014, to reach
28.8%, the lowest level in the available historical
series. In contrast, Canillo is still the parish
with the smallest population (6%), despite the
population dynamics it has seen in recent years,
but the difference with Ordino, the second
least populated parish, is already small (less
than 300 inhabitants, according to estimated
population figures).

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Canillo and La Massana are the
parishes where the populat on
Source: Parish censuses of the Comú governments / Department of Stat st cs. grew most in 2021.

As for population change, the natural population increase in Andorra in 2021 was only 117
individuals, similar to the previous year, due to the surge in deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic.
This trend is the result of a downturn in births, accompanied by a greater reduction in the
number of deaths, after these reached a historic high in 2020. So, the population dynamics
seen in Andorra in 2021 can be explained above all by the positive balance of migration (1,403
individuals), calculated on the basis of estimated population. In total, the estimated population saw
a net increase of 1,520, more than triple the 2020 figure.

VARIATIONS IN THE ESTIMATED POPULATION
Table 4.1
2020 2021 The Andorran economy: general developments | IV. Population, employment and education
Births 539 503
Deaths 419 386
Natural increase 120 117
Birth rate (per thousand) 6.909 6.324
Death rate (per thousand) 5.371 4.853
Rate of natural increase (per thousand) 1.538 1.471
Increase from migrat on or census regularisat on 352 1,403
Total populat on increase* 472 1,520
Marriages 226 355
* Natural increase plus increase from migrat on.
Source: Department of Stat st cs.