Tag: Spain population

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  Spain official population fell in 2012, first time since 1946 because of the recession

  

  Spain's official population fell last year for the first time since the 1940s as immigrants fled a five-year on-and-off recession that has sent unemployment soaring. The number of residents fell by 206,000 to 47.1 million, the National Statistics Institute said on Monday.