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Spain Sees First Birth Rate Increase in 10 Years
Births in Spain rose 1% in 2025 to 321,164 despite a 2.5% increase in deaths, continuing a natural population decline, INE data shows.
- On Wednesday, the national statistics institute INE reported Spain recorded 321,164 births in 2025, up 3,159 or around 1 per cent over 2024, marking the first increase since 2014.
- With an ageing population and low birth rate, Spain's population stood at 49.5 million as of January 1, including 7.2 million foreigners, highlighting migration's demographic role.
- Rising mortality produced a natural population decline of 122,167, as deaths in 2025 increased 2.5 per cent to 446,982, according to INE.
- Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez unveiled a plan last month to regularise 500,000 undocumented immigrants, mainly from Latin America, prompting right-wing parties to call it `reckless` while Sánchez argues immigrants sustain the workforce and pensions.
- This dynamic pressures Spain's workforce and pension sustainability, as countries worldwide face global population crises with births below needed levels, leaving older people dependent on a shrinking working-age population.
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A total of 321,164 babies were born in 2025, 1% more than in 2024, being the first time in the last...
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In Madrid and the Basque Country, more than twice as high as the national average, and in Castilla-La Mancha, more than twice as high.
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The number of babies born in Spain rose slightly for the first time in more than a decade in 2025, official data showed Wednesday, a boost for a country facing one of Europe's most serious demographic crises.
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The number of births in 2025 grew for the first time in a decade although only 1%, there were 321,164, and they are accompanied by a delay of the maternity age; while...
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