Ignacio Blanco
Madrid, May 4 (EFE) .- The year 2024 stood out for giving a dump in birth and register, for the first time in a decade, an increase in births in Spain, but also found two realities over mothers: they never before gave birth so many women over 50 years old or so few children under 19.
last year, when 322,034 babies were born in Spain, the records of mothers older than 50 years were beaten since records began to take records in 2009, with 313 births, a figure almost three times higher than that registered ten years before, when 121 births of this age group were recorded, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE).
An increase that has remained year after year despite the downward trend of birth. While in 2014 the mothers who gave birth with more than 50 years represented 0.028 % of the total, in 2024 this figure has risen to 0.097 %, which means that last year this group of mothers were behind one of every 1,000 births in Spain.
Although the births of mothers greater than 50 represent a small part of the birth set, the data confirms a sustained increase, with a 32 % rebound between 2023 and 2024, a period in which 236 births were passed to 313.
Most of these births occurred in the Community of Madrid (63), Catalonia (62), Andalusia (38) and Community Valenciana (35), while La Rioja did not score any and Extremadura and Navarra only one.
At the other extreme, there are young women who have given birth with less than 19 years, much more numerous than those over 50, although with an inverse trend, since, in this case, a decrease is confirmed.
Last year, Spain registered the lowest number of lighting in this age group, with 5,447, which represented 1.69 % of total births. Of them, 76 were 14 years old or less.
In 2009, when these data began to collect, the number of births of children under 19 exceeded 13,000 and represented 2.68 % of total births; In 2013 he dropped from the threshold of 9,000; and it was in 2021 when it descended from 6,000.
From the set of mothers less than 19, one in four occurred in Andalusia, with 1,314 births of this group, and represented 2.17 % of the total births of the community.
It is followed by Catalonia (730 babies, 1.35 %), Madrid (679, 1.9 %) and Valencian Community (665, 1.8 %), while La Rioja (27, 1.3 %), Cantabria (41, 1.2 %) and Navarra (65, one) close the list.
The only autonomous communities where no girl of 14 years or less were Cantabria, La Rioja and Aragon, in addition to Ceuta and Melilla. EFE
(File resources at www.lafototeca.com. Code 21762114 and others)
