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Spain's population set to drop 11% by 2050
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 20, 2016 04:04pm |
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| Category | Study |
| Author | Stephen Burgen |
| News Date | Thursday, October 20, 2016 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Spain by 2050 will be a depopulated nation dominated by elderly and single people, according to a report that predicts the country will have lost 5.3 million inhabitants, or 11% of the current population, by the middle of the century.
Spain’s low birth rate and high life expectancy are seen as a demographic problem that the report, released by the national statistics office on Thursday, expects to become more entrenched.
If the trends continue, by 2050 the over-65s will make up 34.6% of the population, while close to a quarter of a million Spaniards will be over 100 years old. By that date there will be 1.7 million fewer children under 10 than there are today.
A country also once famed for large families seems destined to become a nation of singletons, with single-person households rising by about a fifth over the next 15 years, to make up 28% of the total. Two-person households will make up a third of the total. |
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