Spain suspends in birth in this 2016
That a nation registers more deaths than births supposes that its inhabitants go to less producing a tendency that in the long term has very negative effects because the lack of renewal of the population hinders the sustainability of the system ..
It is in this situation that you are currently Spain, country that suspends in this 2016 according to the data of the first semester of this course. This nation is currently in negative growth, that is, there are more deaths than births. A trend that started in 2015 and that was not seen from the time of the Civil War.
72 fewer people per day
2016 has not started well for the population in Spain. The negative growth trend experienced last year has been repeated at the beginning of this new course. As indicated by the data of the Statistics National Institute, INE, in the first half of 2016 this country has lost a total of 12,998 inhabitants. Event that caused 195,555 births and 208,553 deaths.
That is to say, during the first semester of 2016 the population in Spain lost inhabitants at a rate of 72 people per day. A sample of the worsening of the birth rate in Spain which has been reduced by 4.6% compared to the data of this same period in 2015. This tendency to show more deaths than births is something that is repeated at the beginning of every year and we will have to wait until the end of this course to see if there is indeed a negative balance of the population.
Communities that grow
However, not all Spanish territory has a negative population growth. In certain autonomous communities there has been a growth of its inhabitants. This is the case, for example, of Ceuta and melilla, territories that experienced an increase of 24.6 and 23.4% respectively.
Inside the peninsula The Rioja It was the communication that grew the most with an increase of almost 5%. The second territories of this ranking were Extremadura with something less than a $% growth and the Valencian Community with 2.3%.
As for the communities that lost the most inhabitants during the first half of 2016, Galicia it is where this negative balance of the population has been more noticed after having almost 15% of its inhabitants, in second place Navarre appears with a decrease of 12.7% and in third position Madrid appears with a decrease of 10%.
Damián Montero
