December 2, 2015
THEY'RE GOING TO NEED EVERY SYRIAN THEY CAN ATTRACT:
Deaths outnumber births in Spain (Reuters, 2 December 2015)
Spain, long concerned about its ageing population and emptying countryside, has passed a milestone in population decline, recording more deaths than births in the first half of this year.Deaths exceeded births by more than 19,000 in the first half of 2015, a turnaround from a year earlier when there were nearly 4,000 more births than deaths, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 2, 2015 4:59 PM
