The births last September they reached the historical minimum for that month in Spain, with falls of 5.94% compared to the same month of 2021, 6.30% compared to 2020 and 8.69% compared to September 2019, before the pandemic.
According to the monthly estimate made public this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), only in the last five years births in this month have plummeted by 15.45% until last September at 28,381, only 946 per day on average, when in 2017 there were 1,118 daily and a total of 33,566.
The INE statistics show great differences when analyzing the data by age of the mother, with a greater drop in the birth rate at younger ages.
Thus, the drop compared to September 2019 reached 25.59% among women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 19; 15.34% between 20 and 24 years old; 12.19 between 25 and 29; 6.10 between 30 and 34; 8.06 between 35 and 39; and 4.87 between 40 and 44.
On the contrary, in the 45 to 49 age group they grew by 2.53% and among women over 50 by 66%although this figure is so high because in September 2019 there were only nine births to mothers of those ages, when the average for recent years is 15, the same as today.
By autonomous communities, all decreased in September compared to that month of 2019, the drop in births was greater in La Rioja (-15.10%), the Canary Islands (-14.89%), Castilla-La Mancha (-12.89%), Navarra (-11.76%) and the Basque Country (-11.45%).
It was also above the average in Castilla y León (-9.26%), Galicia (-8.87%), Andalusia (-8.70%) and Catalonia (-8.45%) and was lower in Cantabria (-8.19%), Extremadura (-8.15%), Madrid (-7.34%), Aragon (-6.80%), the Balearic Islands (-5.36%), Murcia (-5, 00%), Asturias (-4.46%) and the Valencian Community (-3.90%).
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Refering to mortality, that the INE publishes by week, adding the weeks that include the month of September it decreased by 1.09% compared to the same month in 2021 and by 5.17 in relation to that of 2020in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, although it is still 9% above the data for September 2019 and was 8.64% higher than that of that month five years ago.