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The historic economic collapse unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic was especially spectacular in provinces dependent on tourism.
On the other hand, those with a lower relationship with this sector were able to cushion, at least partially, the impact.
And the latter is precisely what has happened with much of the so-called empty Spain.
The areas "with more moderate declines would have been
Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha, in addition to Zamora and Teruel,
" says the Bank of Spain in a report published this Wednesday and in which it also points out that in addition to the aforementioned less exposure to tourism there is Another key and common factor in this performance: "A greater weight of the sectors less affected by covid-19, such
as agriculture and the public sector
."
That is, those places where there is a higher proportion of civil servants and people who work in the agricultural sector.
In the report
The evolution of activity in the Spanish provinces throughout 2020, it
is observed that, indeed, the contraction in both
Cáceres
and
Badajoz
does not reach 6%.
The fall, obviously, is very important but, at the same time, much more limited than the 11% that the whole of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Spain fell.
Ciudad Real also remained below 6%, while
Toledo
,
Guadalajara
,
Cuenca
,
Zamora
and
Soria
presented contraction figures of less than 7%.
The opposite case is represented by the island provinces.
Among the most pronounced setbacks in the year as a whole, those of the
Balearic Islands
[-27%] and the Canary provinces of
Las Palmas
and
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
[-21% and -19%], "explains the organization led by Pablo Hernández de Cos, and which "are followed by
Malaga, Gerona and Alicante
." "These six provinces are characterized by the fact that the weight of the tourism sector - especially that linked to foreign demand - in provincial activity is especially high," he adds. the BdE.
Also leads mortality
The regulator's document also addresses excess mortality in each province to try to observe the relationship between the incidence of the disease and contraction.
And the conclusion is that this incidence has not been decisive since many of the territories that have suffered the least contraction are, at the same time, those with the highest mortality.
"The number of deaths in 2020 in Spain was 17.2% higher than the average of the two preceding years, which is 0.15% with respect to the population", and "the provinces with the highest excess mortality in 2020 were those belonging to
the two Castiles and Madrid
", the report points out.
"On the less negative side, the
Galician and island provinces
stand out
," he adds.
Specifically, the work of the BdE confirms that
Segovia, Soria and Salamanca
were the provinces with the highest excess mortality, followed by
Ciudad Real, León and Albacete
.
On the opposite side are, in this order,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Pontevedra, La Coruña, Las Palmas, Castellón and Lugo
.
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