Galicia misplaced a complete of 5,181 inhabitants in 2022, reaching 2,690,464 residents locally, of which 26.1% are over 65 years of age as this age group of the inhabitants grew by nearly 8,500 individuals in only one yr .
According to the information of the continual register printed this Tuesday, January 24 by the National Institute of Statistics, Galicia closed one other yr with a lack of inhabitants. Thus, it has chained twelve years with its inhabitants pyramid in decline with the only real exception of 2020, during which there was a slight upturn of about 2,500 inhabitants.
Since 2010, the neighborhood has misplaced greater than 107,000 residents, a inhabitants much like that of Ourense, the third metropolis in Galicia in quantity of inhabitants.
The older ones go up and the youthful ones go down.
In addition, the inhabitants of the neighborhood is older. Those over 65 are already 26.1% of the whole, with a rise of 8,490 individuals in comparison with a yr in the past, reaching 702,630 individuals over 65.
For their half, these below 15 years of age decreased by 5,714 (327,964 in whole). Despite the decline within the whole inhabitants, the variety of foreigners residing in Galicia is rising. There are already 118,740, 4,206 greater than on the finish of 2021.
The 4 provinces lose inhabitants
The lower is extra pronounced each in whole and share phrases within the province of Lugo, which fell to 323,989 inhabitants after closing the yr with 2,024 fewer residents than twelve months in the past.
The Atlantic provinces, A Coruña and Pontevedra, focus greater than 76% of the whole inhabitants of the Galician inhabitants, however have additionally seen their inhabitants lower.
Thus, A Coruña now has 1,119,180 residents, 954 lower than on the finish of 2021; whereas Pontevedra misplaced 1,260 inhabitants to 943,015. The inhabitants of Ourense, for its half, drops to 304,280 individuals, 943 lower than a yr in the past.