Bad news for Spain's population future

This week the INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística) has published the birth and mortality rates of 2016 first semester and they are really worrying. There have been 13,000 deaths more than the number of births and we are losing 72 inhabitants per day. If we did the calculations of Spain's natural growth right now, we would have negative growth (Stage 5 according to the Demographic Transition model). Here you have a short report in Spanish from the TV news:

España pierde en el primer semestre del año una media de 72 habitantes al día

This graph shows Spain's declining fertility rate:

Source: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_kViVHbOxXU/VPyrHonvusI/AAAAAAAAXHo/lFtG03XwpYk/s1600/2015-03-08_210322.png

This one shows Spain's declining population:

Source: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p69Ot5JLMH8/VPyecfr3D3I/AAAAAAAAXHI/bo0DrZaEoTQ/s1600/2015-03-08_200709.png

Here you have a graph that shows the migratory balance in the last years:

Source: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v4ar6nxE_Ww/VPyRBkia-qI/AAAAAAAAXG4/-XkNAEB97w8/s1600/2015-03-08_191158.png

This is the projection for Spain's population pyramid in 2023:

Source: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iMB6-WtWEqc/VP2LxwOKgKI/AAAAAAAAXIU/yTKPPc8ESuY/s1600/2015-03-09_130153.png

If you want to learn more about this topic and its negative consequences for the economy, here you have two links. The firts one is shorter and the second one is more complete: 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/population-drop-in-spain-a-bad-omen-for-europe/article11533946/

http://www.economonitor.com/edwardhugh/2015/03/10/why-is-spains-population-loss-an-economic-problem/

How to draw a population pyramid

Here you have a short video that explains how to draw a population pyramid by hand:

And on this link you can watch a more detailed explanation:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyoKWRC2es


 You can also draw population pyramids using computer software, such as Excel:

 

And here you have other tutorials to draw the pyramid with Google spreadsheet, that you will find on your Google Drive. You can access Google Drive from your e-mail account, clicking on the small squares that appear on the right top of your screen.

Population pyramids

Here you have some videos about population pyramids and what they teach us about the demographic situation of a country: