The Diplomat
A total of 159,705 children were born in Spain in the first half of 2022, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) on Wednesday 17 August. This figure represents almost a thousand fewer than in the same period of 2021 (160,681) and represents a drop in the birth rate in the country to historic lows. This is the eighth consecutive year that the INE has recorded a decline in this area during the first six months of the year, since June 2015, when births were close to 205,000.
In June 2022 this figure has been reduced by more than 45,000, making the first half of this last year the one with the fewest births recorded in Spain since data on this subject has been kept, in 1941.
February was the month with the lowest number of births (24,836), followed by April (25,570) and June (26,959). The other three months were: January, 27,563; March, 27,426; and May, 27,343.
