Oviedo (EFE).- Asturias registered 393 births in January, a figure that represents a drop of 7.3 percent compared to the same month last year, according to the monthly estimate of births published this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). ).
Births fell in Asturias in the first month of 2023 after they rose 0.5 percent last year, to 4,810.
However, in relation to 2019, the last year prior to the covid pandemic, births fell last year in Asturias by 6.6 percent.
In the country as a whole, 27,185 births were recorded in January, 1.8 percent less than in the same period last year.
In 2022, 329,850 births were registered in Spain, 2.1 percent less than in 2021, and 8.1 percent below the 2019 figure.
By autonomous communities, the greatest falls in the number of births in January occurred in Navarra, 13 percent; Murcia, 13.2 percent, and Castilla-La Mancha, 10.3 percent, while the main increases corresponded to La Rioja, 11.1 percent; Canarias, 1.8 percent, and Castilla y León, 1.4 percent.
Decrease in the number of deaths
The INE has also published this Wednesday the estimate of the number of weekly deaths, updated until week 8 of the year, that is, until February 20.
In said period, Asturias registered 2,287 deaths, 4.9 percent less in the interannual rate, and 2.3 percent less compared to the same period in 2019.
This evolution contrasts with that of last year, when deaths in the community increased by 4.5 percent, up to 13,944.
In the country as a whole, there were 78,815 deaths in January, 3.8 percent less than in the same period last year, although 1.1 percent more than in 2019.
By autonomous communities, the number of deaths fell especially in the first eight months of this year in Cantabria, 11.8 percent; The Basque Country, 7.5 percent, and the Canary Islands, 7.1 percent, while Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha recorded the only increases, of 2.4 and 1.5 percent, respectively. EFE