In terms of emigration vs. immigration, after centuries of net emigration, Spain, has recently experienced large-scale immigration for the first time in modern history. According to the Spanish government there were 5,730,667 foreign residents in Spain as of January 2011. Of these, more than 860,000 were Romanians, and half 760,000 were Morocco while the number of Ecuadorians was around 390,000. Colombian people population amounted to around 300,000. There are also a significant number of British (359,076 as of 2011, but more than one million are estimated to live permanently in Spain) and German (195,842) citizens, mainly in Alicante (province), Málaga (province) provinces, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands. Chinese in Spain number over 166,000. Immigrants from several sub-Saharan African countries have also settled in Spain as contract workers, although they represent only 4.08% of all the foreign residents in the country.. In 2011 were more of the foreign residents in Spain from Morocco or Romania?