[eng] During the last decade, aging populations are getting to worrying points in
some regions, especially in developed countries. One of these countries
which has been very affected by an aging population is Spain, as it has had
a very big birth rate problem, as it is one of the countries in tu EU with the
lowest rate. This fact sums up with another one, which is life expectancy
(increased vastly in the last decades in Spain), which leads to disaster, as
they are two phenomenons that, succeeded at the same time, take us to an
unsustainable economy. In this project we will focus on the Spanish region
of the Balearic Island. The archipelago has surprisingly good ratios, in terms
of aging population, compared to many other regions in Spain, however this
doesn’t take away the fact that Baleares is in a critical point, as all it’s fellow
Spanish regions. The main sources come from the same points as the
general Spanish issues: low birth rate, high life expectancy and also
immigration, which leads to an increase in the middle sector of population
pyramids, which are already too big to sustain due to the baby boom
generation. All these problems are just add ons to issues that create, as
said, unsustainability in terms of economic systems.
Our main results on the analysis conclude what we’ve just said; an aging
population is unsustainable, especially in Spain, and as we will see, this
might have a negative effect on some macroeconomic factors such as
employment and unemployment, GDP, etc.