🇪🇸 Spain briefing

Why it matters, neighbors, workers versus retirees. Generate a draft, write it yourself, then expand or edit any paragraph.

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Spain pairs very low fertility with rapid aging and large regional gaps between empty interior provinces and coastal metros.

Sections
Charts — order and placement

Children per woman, Spain and neighbors

children per woman
TFR

Total fertility rate, Spain

children per woman

Population share by religion

% of population

Age pyramid, Spain

2025 · male (left) / female (right)

people
World Bank population by age and sex. Open full pyramidbirthrate.io

Working-age and retirees, Spain

millions of people
Working age (15–64)Age 65+

Net migration, Spain

people

Foreign-born stock by origin, Spain

people

Spain-born living abroad

people

Lifetime fiscal break-even by pay percentile

percentile

Health expenditure, Spain

% of GDP

Age-dependency ratio, Spain

%

Share aged 65+, Spain

%

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This briefing will cover

  • INE period TFR is among the lowest in Europe.
  • Foreign-born shares and births to foreign mothers are the composition series where published.
  • Pension and health spending track the 65+ share more tightly than any one year’s TFR.

Working-age counts are modeled from today’s pyramid. 2040 taxpayers are mostly already born; TFR shows up around 2060.