Spain has lost a million people since January 2011 because of the recession
Condemned by recession, almost a million persons have left Spain since January last year according to a report from the country’s National Statistics Institute, INE, which also points out that the trend has intensified in the first nine months of this year.
The report says that until October, 927.890 abandoned Spain which is in the midst of a deep recession and with sustained record-breaking unemployment of almost 25%, one out of four from the active population, and 50% in the age group 18/28 years. Of that million, 117.500 are Spaniards.
INE shows that in the first nine months of this year, 420.150 people have left Spain, which represents an increase of 37.539 over the same period a year ago.
Of that figure 55.000 are Spanish born nationals or 21.6% and the rest foreigners.
To the massive outflow must be added a considerable retraction in the number of immigrants because of the global crisis and ongoing recession in Spain.
Between January and October this year, 282.500 people migrated to Spain which represents a fall of 18.3% compared to the same period a year ago.
As a result of the intense migratory movement INE says that since the beginning of 2011, Spain has lost population which now stands at 46.117.000 compared to 47.153.000, twenty-one months ago.
At the height of the roaring years and the boom of the construction industry Spain became a magnet for millions of immigrants from Latinamerica and Eastern Europe.
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where have they gone to.
the mind boggles,
seeing as we are told that their is only one nation that is growing, day by day,
mmmmwe wonder ??
www.spaniards.es/foros/2012/07/16/adonde-se-estan-marchando-los-espanoles
professionals like doctors and the Uk gets them free of charge.............damn good deal if you ask me!!
are you then saying that only spain has the best doctors in the world,,
and only the UK is the only country in the world to benifit from it.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Re: “A significant number have come to the UK. They all seem young, professional and keen to work so good for them”.
For: 4 eusebio (#)
Re: “The peripheral economies are under austerity measures and this causes unemployment to increase. Spain has the highest unemployment in Europe”.
First, I must say that, having lived in many different countries and eventually married a Spaniard by whom I have four children and three grandchildren, I’m not anti-Spaniard nor anti-anyone else of good will.
However, the ‘MercoPress’ piece highlights the truth of the E.U.s manifest corruption and democratically unaccountable inefficacy. Brussels is a nefarious nest of ne’re-do-wells who’s movers and shakers largely initiated and subsequently exacerbated, this whole frigging economic disaster; for which, the working classes are now being sacrificed, in a desperate attempt to save the big international Bankers and their cohorts from penury, if not jail!!!
Furthermore, the fact that 1 million working age Spaniards have emigrated since October last, CONSIDERABLY REDUCES Spain’s mindboggling dire unemployment statistics and makes its politicians appear MARGINALLY less inept –if such a mythically herculean feat is possible in the modern world!!! On the other hand, the arrival of so many young, well qualified work hungry Spaniards in countries such as Germany, U.K. etcetera (some 70.000 have gone to Britain during the past few months) is another blatant example of just how easily Big Business manipulates its hired minions –by manoeuvring the jobless between E.U. member States– in a manner reminiscent of military commanders conducting troop movements during a World War!!! So it seems that Spanish and other Southern European countries’ taxpayers are financing their youngster’s university education, simply to export them, once qualified –as dishwashers, etcetera– to Northern Europe and other less economically depressed parts of the world, where they compete with the indige
Welcome to reality, Mr. Jim Hanley......
Whenever a Sudaca tells the same kind of story you are telling us now, they call him an incompetent whiner...........
Are you an incompetent whiner Mr. Jim Hanley?
I don't think so............
I would just point out that migrating workers is nothing new, it has happened all over the world for centuries.
I agree with some of what you say but not all. People should be free to work wherever they want to providing the host country is prepared to accept them.
The UK has suffered from 'brain-drain' situations and the reverse, depending on the climate. India had a similar situation where there was mass movement to Western countries but now that is very much in reverse.
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I apologize for the delay in sending this. Had some trouble with my P.C.
Jim.
PART 2 OF TRUNCATED MESSAGE ”SPANISH EMMIGRATION”
Re: “A significant number have come to the UK. They all seem young, professional and keen to work so good for them”.
For: 4 eusebio (#)
Re: “The peripheral economies are under austerity measures and this causes unemployment to increase. Spain has the highest unemployment in Europe”.
First, I must say that, having lived in many different countries and eventually married a Spaniard by whom I have four children and three grandchildren, I’m not anti-Spaniard nor anti-anyone else of good will........
PART 2 OF TRUNCATED MESSAGE:
Southern European countries’ taxpayers are financing their youngster’s university education, simply to export them, once qualified –as dishwashers, etcetera– to Northern Europe and other less economically depressed parts of the world, where they compete with the indigenous workforce and drive down local wages.
Having successfully outsourced so much of the industrialized world’s manufacturing facilities to Far Eastern factories who’s workers fare little better than slaves, the Big Boys have now started on US AT HOME!!!
Meanwhile, some 22.000 of the Third World’s children DIE DAILY –from CHEAPLY and EASILY preventable causes!!!
CONCLUSION: in crude reality, we in the so-called democracies are NOT governed by our elected representatives but by the INTERNATIONAL BANKERS. And until a way is found to restrict the rapacious avarice of these devastating social parasites, THINGS WILL JUST GET EVER WORSE!!!
READ YOUR NOAM CHOMSKY!!!
Cheers!
Jim Handley, in Madrid.
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