Logroño/Madrid, (EFE) in the first three months of this year.
In the period analyzed, 78,535 boys and girls were born in Spain, only 873 per day on average, which is the second lowest figure since there is data, only slightly surpassed by that of the same period in 2021, in the midst of the pandemic. .
The negative evolution of the birth rate is common to practically all of Spain and only Aragon can boast that it has at least been maintained despite the inconveniences of the difficult health situation.
In the rest of the communities, births have continued to decline to a greater or lesser extent, with maximums in Navarra (-16.95%, measured in average daily births in the first quarter of this year in relation to the same months of 2020 ), La Rioja (-15.40%), the Basque Country (-14.48%), Castilla-La Mancha (-14.28%) and the Canary Islands (-13.32%) and minimums, below the average national, in Madrid (-1.81%), the Valencian Community (-4.68%), Extremadura (-6.63%) and Andalusia (-6.94%).
Of every 100 boys and girls currently born in Spain, approximately two thirds see the light of day in only four communities: 19 in Andalusia, 17 in Catalonia, 16 in Madrid and 11 in the Valencian Community.
Of the remaining third, four were born in Galicia, the Basque Country, Murcia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León and the Canary Islands; three in Aragon and the Balearic Islands; two in Extremadura and one in Asturias, Cantabria, Navarra and La Rioja.