In 2020, the first year of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, the marriage rate in Spain almost halved, higher than in many other European countries during the same period.
In 2020, the number of marriages in Spain fell 46% compared to last year; this is a significant drop compared to other European countries such as Germany or France, where the number of marriages fell by only 10%. fell 34%.
Only Southern European countries observed a similar decline in the number of marriages: in Italy, the number of marriages fell by 47 percent and in Portugal by 43 percent. A newspaper in Spain reported that in 2020 Ireland experienced the biggest drop in the marriage rate in Europe – 53%. World reports.
Spain’s birth rate fell by more than five percent in 2020, further reducing the country’s low birth rate, while the death rate rose nearly 18 percent. https://t.co/OsYn9HnTbJ
– Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) 11 December 2021
Since 1975, when 271,347 marriages were registered in Spain, by 2020 that number had fallen to 87,481 marriages in less than 50 years.
By WorldThe rate has continued to decline since the 2008 financial crisis and noted that in the five years before the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, the level was significantly lower than in the five years before the financial crisis.
There is also a new trend in some predominantly Catholic countries in Europe, such as Spain, Portugal and Italy, with an increasing rate of marriages being second marriages. In 2000, first marriages in Spain accounted for 95 to 99 percent of all marriages, compared to 80 percent in recent years.
Concurrent with the drop in the marriage rate, Spain saw a similar drop in the birth rate in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, the rate fell by more than five percent and the death rate increased by 18 percent.
Population growth in Spain in 2021 due to immigration https://t.co/LUQGa9AWdm
– Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) 24 April 2022
The Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) reported that Spain’s birth rate was just 1.19 per woman in 2020, up from 1.24 last year, making Spain one of the lowest birth rates in Europe.
Despite falling birth rates, Spain’s total population increased by more than 50,000 last year due to immigration alone, the number of Spanish nationals decreased by 21,920 and the number of foreigners increased by 72,410.
Source: Breitbart
