Unit 4 Today’s Trends

Family trends

Spain has a population of approximately 39,508,900, with fifty provinces in seventeen autonomous regions.

One of the leading causes of the slow growth is a decrease in fertility rates that began in the 1980s.

the number of live births during a woman's life this year the number was 2.2, but it dropped in 1998 and 1999, by which time the numbers stood at 1.15 and 1.18, respectively. By 2025 the annual rate of growth is estimated to be –0.4 percent with an approximate population of only 37,648,000