Seville, (EFE) below the Spanish average and a strong increase in university education.
On the eve of Andalusia Day, which is celebrated on February 28, the Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA) publishes a series of indicators that reflect these changes since the community agreed to full autonomy after the 1980 referendum.
Population
From the beginning of the eighties to the present, Andalusia has gone from being less than 6.3 million inhabitants to more than 8.5 million and has gained weight, going from 10 to 18%, the largest group of 65 years, while that of those under 16 years of age has decreased, from 31% to 16%.
Life expectancy has increased in the case of men from 71.5 years in 1980 to 77.4 in 2021 and in that of women from 78.8 to 84.2 years respectively, while the average number of children per women has fallen from 2.7 to 1.3.
The rate of marriages per 1,000 inhabitants has risen in these forty years from 6.5 to 3.2 and that of deaths from 7.7 to 9.3 per thousand inhabitants.
As a result of the increase in the elderly population, the number of contributory pensions has risen from just over 675,000 in 1980 to more than 1.7 million in 2021. The average amount of pensions has gone from 110.6 euros to 1,062 euros per month.
With data from 2014, dependent people stood at 283,428 and in 2021 this figure has risen to 307,238, and the percentage of people without benefit has gone from 42% to 12% in eight years -the dependency law came into force in the year 2006-.
Economy and employment
The interprofessional minimum wage has gone from 137 euros in 1980 to 1,080 euros in 2023, with substantial progress in the last three years.
With somewhat shorter series, GDP per capita has grown from 1995 to 2022 by slightly more than 13,600 euros to stand at 22,238 euros per year, around 75% of the Spanish average, and the average salary has gone from 7,066 euros per month from 1999 to 15,292 euros in 2021.
In terms of salaries, men reach an average of more than 19,000 euros per year while women are around 15,000 euros.
From 1993 to 2021, the number of Social Security affiliations has increased, going from 1.8 million to widely exceeding 3.2 million, with decreases in the self-employed agrarian regime, which goes from representing 24% to 12% , while the general regime grew above all, with a weight ranging from 66.6% of the total to almost 69%, and to a lesser extent that of the self-employed, from 15.5% to 17.3%.
From 2011 to 2021 the number of companies has gone from 247,003 to 260,640 and the average number of employees has increased from 7.5 to 9, while the weight of the sectors remains practically the same with slight upward variations in services and catering and to the drop in agriculture.
Regarding the real estate market, the price per square meter of free housing has gone from 276 euros to 1,411 euros from 1987 to 2021.
Education and culture
From a population over 16 years of age of 4.3 million that existed in 1980 in Andalusia, it has reached 7.1 million in 2021, with many changes in the level of training.
Nearly two million Andalusians have attained higher education, multiplying almost nine times those who had these studies in 1980 (233,000).
The population with secondary education has increased from approximately half a million in 1980 to 3.7 million in 2021 and the population without primary education has gone from 1.5 million to 624,000 people.
In the cultural section, the number of libraries stands out, from 220 in 1980 to 767 in 2021, and the number of cinemas, from 232 (year 1989) to 645 in 2021, although it fell from 7.6 million to 6.3 million last year. number of viewers although the percentage of those who have seen Spanish films grew from 9% to 16% of the total.
There has also been a great leap in visitors to museums and monuments, which have gone from around 600,000 in 1991 to 2.1 million twenty years later.
Regarding sports federation licences, they have doubled from 1992 to the present, in which there are more than half a million, football leading the ranking, followed by hunting and golf.
Environment
The terrestrial surface of protected natural spaces in the Andalusian community has gone from 60,149 to 1.79 million hectares, that is, from having 0.7% with protection to 20.5% of its total surface.
In renewable energies, since 2005, gross electricity production with renewables compared to final electricity consumption has gone from 7.2% to 51.7% in 2021.
The degree of motorization of society reflects that it has gone from 63.7 vehicles per hundred inhabitants to 78.5, and in the case of electric, hybrid or bio vehicles from representing 0.02 to 0.8% between 2010 and 2021, according to ACEI statistics. EFE
