Natural population changes in Spain

Observe the graph an answer the question

1. What happens in 1918? Why?


2. What happens around 1938? Why?


3. What is a Baby Boom? When did it happen in Spain?

Look for information in your text book and answer the following questions:

a. Why has the birth rate decreased since 1980? Why has it increased a little in recent years?

b. Look at the map on page 69 and write the name of the autonomic communities with the highest death rate and the communities with the lowest one. Why does it happen?

c. Why did the migration to Europe stop in 1973?

d. Where do the current immigrants come from? Why do they immigrate to Spain? What provinces do they settle?

e. What are the consequences of the immigration in Spain?

Population. Birth and death rates

Read the text and look up the word
you don’t understand. Then, listen to the questions and answer them

Fatima is a 23 – years – old woman who lives in Niger (Africa). She got

married at 14 and had her first child one year later. She has had five

children, but two of them died before they were one year old, victims of

malaria, aggravated with malnutrition. Her situation is even worse because her

husband also died of malaria at the age of 24. Fatima has been forced to work

hard on the land to support her three children and her mother who is also a

widow and in poor health after 40 years of hard work and having 12 children.

Inés lives in Alicante (Spain). She is 35 and has a three – year – old

son. She got married at 30 and she and her husband decided to have only one

child. This way they can run their business and spend time with their son. From

time to time her parents or parents in law, who are retired but still quite

young, help the couple take care of their son.