ALBERTO HERNANDEZ
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PEDRO SIMÓN
Updated Tuesday,21March2023-00:41
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In Zamora, 60% of the towns have more neighbors born before the Civil War than in the XXI century. That's the picture. That is the devastating portrait of a part of Spain that is bleeding demographically to anemia, the data of a country where half of the provinces have lost inhabitants in the last ten years.
Today, within the already depopulated northwest of the peninsula, we put the magnifying glass on Aliste, the Zamora region of 200,000 hectares sewn to Portugal. Here, in the region with the smallest population under 20 in Europe (13.1%), EU statistical forecasts predict that the number of young people will halve in three decades. We are talking about a place where extensive livestock is being cornered by renewables and rising prices. Of a territory – also bitten in summer by the flames of the fire of the Sierra de la Culebra – where disinvestment, low birth rate and aging come together.
"We thought more about those who left the town than those who stayed and everything deteriorated," says Santiago León, a goatherd. "Until we get to the now: if a leak falls and you don't fix it, in the end you are homeless."
Source of infographics:
- Santamaría González, D. (2020). 'Depopulation and ageing in the province of Zamora.'
- Own elaboration based on data from Eurostat and INE.
Editorial staff: Alberto Hernández and Pedro Simón.
Infographic: Alberto Hernandez.
Art direction: María González Manteca and Josetxu L. Piñeiro.
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