Population Deflation: Spain Joins Germany with Negative Net Birth Rate; Italy on Threshold; Who’s to Blame?

The English version El Pais asks Is it time for Spain to address its plummeting birth rate? Figures from the National Statistics Institute (INS) show there was a peak in 1944, with 23 births per 1,000 inhabitants. But that number bottomed out in 1998 when only nine births per 1,000 were reported.“We have seen an incredible decline in the birth rate, which has been cut by half since 1975, and this trend is here to stay,†says Andrés, of the University of Palencia

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Population Deflation: Spain Joins Germany with Negative Net Birth Rate; Italy on Threshold; Who’s to Blame?