Spanish population

Spanish population

1. Characteristics of the Spanish population

   • Incresed during the 20th century
     • Positive natural increase
       • Althouh th birth rate hasn´t incresed, the death rate has decrease. Medical care improved and nutrtious
     • Positive actual increase
       • Many more people come to Spain . There are more immigrants living in Spain . many left their countries because of nature or social problems
     • Life expectancy
       • Is the avrage number of yers that the people life .
     • The distribution of the Spanish population
       • Spain has 93 inhabitants per square kilometre . Is low to other European countries . Spain´s population is mostly urban . 78% live in urban areas . The most densely populated large cities and coastal regions.

2. Migrations in Spain

   • there are three types of migatory movements
     • International emigration
       • Many Spaniards emigrated to North and Southamerica. In th.e 1960s and 1970s, people started emigrating to European countries
     • Internal migration
       • IIn the second half of the 20th century, about four million people from rural areas moved to cities
         • The rural exodus can have various consequences:
           • overcrowded cities;
           • enviromental problems;
           • high unemployment among ;
           • lack of food supplies.
     • International immigration
       • At the end of the 20th century the situation changed and Spain started receiving immigrants from others countries.

3. Our changing population

   • The absolute population of an area is a number of inhabitants in that area
     • Natural increase
       • Difference between the number of births and the number of deaths natural increase
         • Positive natural increase means the birth rate is higer than the death rate. Increases.
         • Negative natural increase means that the death rate are higer than the birth rate. Deacreases.
     • Actual incease
       • We add the number of immigrantsto the natural increase
         • Actual increase = natural increase + number of immigrants - number of emmigrants
           • Natural causes, such as floods, erthquakes and droughts;
           • social causes, such as wars , hunger and poverty ;
           • economic causes, such as job opportunities
     • Population density
       • Shows us how populated an area is. We calculate dividing the number of inhabitants by the size of an area that they live in.
         • population density = population _________________________ square kilometres