Spanish demography

Demographic scenery is an important topic to be considered by a great deal of industrial production firms. Indeed, consumer activity and trends are ones of the relevant issues able to push and define markets.

A lot of examples of consumer involvement in industrial market trends could be found, such as car purchases are rebounding on spare parts and car repairing technological tools market, or life style is related to furniture market, or birth-rate is defining baby food industry chances or population growth is related to expansion of construction, etc.

We are plotting herewith how inhabitants are geographically distributed in Spain, as well as some figures to depict the potential of consumption of the population, with some indications such as:

Estimated population at January 2007: 45,116,894 inhabitants
where:

Ranking of Spain population by origin

Spain Spanish: 88,6%
South+Central America: 4,4%
Non Spanish EU: 3,9%
Africa: 1,9%
European Non EU: 0,5%
Asia: 0,5%
North America: 0,2%


Estimate households in 2005: 15,040,822

Household average size: 2.88 people

See attached plots of geographic population and household incomes profiles

Source: INE and own data