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Fertility, life expectancy and migratory flows determine the population. This graph shows how, in the first place, between 1980 and 2000 the population remained around six million people. However, in the...

Catalonia went from having almost 100,000 births every year in the 1970s to 55,000 in the 1990s. In other words, there was a decline in children per woman that has since recovered slightly. The baby boom...

For the first time in the recent history of Catalonia it is forecast that in the immediate future –before 2020– the number of deaths will outstrip that of births. The mortality rate is rising, despite...