Posted on 12/11/2019 6:13:30 PM PST by marshmallow
MADRID, December 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Spanish authorities revealed that tens of thousands more citizens died than were born in the first six months of 2019. The alarming statistics not only reveal this time period to have the lowest birthrate in almost 80 years, but they also highlight the country’s trend toward what observers are calling the country’s “demographic suicide.”
According to the Spanish National Statistical Institute (INE), between January and June of this year, Spain saw only 170,074 children born. In this same time frame, 215,478 citizens died. This means that there was a decline in Spain’s population by 45,404 persons during that period. Having a death rate higher than the birth rate indicates a shrinking population.
According to the INE, the number of births registered for January-June this year represents a drop of 6.2% in comparison to the same period in 2018. This is the worst birth rate ever registered by Spain, which began keeping birth statistics in 1941, just two years after the devastating civil war in the country that caused as many as 2 million deaths in just three years.
Spain’s total population grew slightly last year by 284,387 people (0.6%), thanks to immigration, putting the total at 47 million in 2018. This was the first overall increase since 2013. The total population had dropped during the intervening years. Spain is a favorite destination not only for European tourists, but also elderly European pensioners and young migrants from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
Stats show that Spain’s population is getting older. The average age of all residents is 43.4 years. The average age of native-born Spaniards is 44.2 years, while foreigners average 36.1 years. Foreigners constitute the younger crowd in Spain: 55% of foreigners are between the ages of 16 to 44 years.....
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Been going on for years all over Europe. In most of western Europe, the birthrate has been less than the death rate.
Lets send the mexicans there
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. (That’s not the only thing that happened.)
Not saying much when the rest of them are Sasquatches.
This just in...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Maybe they need to import from central America and south America, at least they speak Spanish
The only two European countries with a high birth-rate are France and Ireland.
Get rid of liberals and their policies like abortion
Better looking than the Hapsburgs were!
A major problem with Spain is that when they had their terrible recession a huge number of the people in their prime child bearing age left to find work, and when the economy started to recover they didn’t come back. They lost a generation.
I’m pretty sure France’s birth rate is high because of the number of Muslims in the country reproducing like rats.
Venezuelans are starting to move there.
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