Friday 26 April 2013

Spain's immigrants leave as recession continues


The population of Spain has fallen for the first time since records began according to the Spanish National Statistics Institute. The latest figures show that the population of Spanish citizens grew very slightly by 10,000 people but the number of registered foreign residents fell by 216,000 resulting in a net population fall of 206,000 to 47.1m.

The Spanish economy has been in turmoil since 2008 when the global economic crisis caused a collapse in the Spanish housing market. Since then, matters have been made worse by the fact that the Spanish government has had to cut expenditure because of the crisis in the Eurozone. The lack of opportunity in Spain with an unemployment rate of 26.6% has resulted in some foreign residents leaving the Country. Youth unemployment currently stands at 50%.

Spain's economy grew rapidly from the mid-1980s until 2008 when like many other countries around the World was affected by the economic crisis. Much of the growth in Spain in the past was fuelled by a construction boom. Many people came from around the Spanish speaking world to work on Spanish construction sites. Immigrants came from Latin America and also from Romania and Morocco. The number of registered foreign residents rose from less than 1m (924,000) in 2000 to nearly 6m (5.7m) in 2010.

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