One notable demographic change in Valencia in the last decade has been the growth in the foreign born population which has risen from 1.5% in the year 2000 to almost 13% in 2007 , a trend that has also occurred in the two larger cities of Madrid and Barcelona The main countries of origin were Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Morocco and Romania. Although the foreign born population rose by 2.4% overall between 2006 and 2007 this varied widely with a 13% jump in the number of those born in other E.U. countries and similar rise in those arriving from Central American countries. With the exception of South America, there was a fall in those foreign born residents from other continents, with the largest decrease being a 14% fall in the number of North American born residents. .
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