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Date Published: 18/08/2022

ARCHIVED - Baby boom: Alicante bucks national trend with a rise in birth rate

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The number of babies born in Alicante province rose by 3.2% in the first half of 2022

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Baby boom: Alicante bucks national trend with a rise in birth rate

In contrast to Spain as a whole, which has recorded a historic low in terms of births in the first half of 2022, Alicante province has seen a surge, with the number of babies born up 3.2% on the same period in 2021.

A total of 159,705 children were born in Spain between January and the end of June, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). This figure represents almost 1,000 fewer than in the same period in 2021 (160,681) and represents a historic drop in the birth rate.

However, this negative trend is the opposite to the situation in the Valencia Region where 17,008 children have been born in the first six months, compared to 16,552 in the first half of 2021; an increase of 456 births (2.7% more).

And in the province of Alicante, where the number of births to June 2022 is 6,323 compared to 6,124 the previous year, the growth is even higher with 199 more newborns (3.2% growth).

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This semester's figure represents an upturn in the number of births after a fall in 2021 compared to the best data of 2020, when 6,478 children were born in the province - a trend in line with what happened in the Region as a whole, when 17,725 births took place.

On a national level, this is the eighth consecutive year that the INE has recorded a decline in births during the first six months of the year. In June 2015, births were close to 205,000.

On the flipside, the number of deaths is down in Alicante province. Up to week 30 of this year, 10,798 people have died compared to 11,122 in the same period last year following a peak in the pandemic; 10,032 in the first half of 2020; and from 9,419 in 2019. prior to the Covid health crisis.

Most of the deaths in 2022 accumulated in the summer months, according to the daily mortality monitoring system (MoMo) of the Carlos III Institute, with the majority of the deceased aged over 90.

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