Population

This Working Paper analyzes the changes in the definitive financing of the autonomous communities under the common system from 2002 to 2021.

The demographic challenges facing developed countries are well known: rapid aging and populations that in are already beginning to shrink in some regions. Less well known, however, is that the demographic transition is already changing the landscape in the vast majority of developing countries.

The growth trend in the real estate market continues. After the correction, between 2008 and 2014, the sector has not stopped growing in the last few years. This advance was only interrupted in 2020— the toughest stage in the COVID-19 pandemic— which is still affecting the world economy.

Since 1996, the number of homes in Spain has increased, as well as their size. This Observatory studies the contribution of different socio-demographic factors such as average household size, population growth and the number of dwellings per household to the demand and size per dwelling.

This note briefly describes the latest update of RegData, a database that collects the main economic and demographic aggregates of the Spanish regions over the last six decades. For the most part, the series begin in 1950 or 1955 and run until 2018.

The purpose of this report is to present some of the most important drivers and implications of a declining fertility rate in the U.S. According to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the general fertility rate -number of births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44- declined to 60.3 in 2017.