The year 2024 He stood out for giving Overtry in birth and record, for the first time in a decade, a increase in birth in Spainbut also found two realities about mothers: They never gave birth so many women over 50 years old or so few children children.
last year, when they were born in Spain 322,034 babiesthe Mothers -in -law records older than 50 years Since records began to take records in 2009, with 313 births, a figure almost three times greater than that registered ten years before, when 121 births of this age group were recorded, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (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.
While the births of mothers greater than 50 They represent one small part of the birth setthe data confirms a sustained increasewith 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.
5,400 mothers under 19 years in 2024
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 descent.
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 were produced in Andalusiawith 1,314 births of this group, and represented 2.17 % of the total births of the community.
They are 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) 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.
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