Face with crisis of under population,
Spanish government has engaged a ‘sex tsar’ to help increase the country's
"catastrophically low" birth rate.
The government is apparently accusing
young couples for being "too tired after a full day at work" and
"late nights" for the decline.
So, faced with a rapidly
declining population, the Senado de Espana has tasked demographic expert
Edelmira Barreira with sorting out the problem.
The plan comes as a result of a
report which shows more deaths than births for the very first time since 2015.
Statistics revealed Spanish women
between 18-49 reportedly had an average of 1.3 children in 2015 - below the
European Union’s (EU) figure of 1.58.
Whereas many European countries
are seeing a decline in birth rates, Spain's figures shows it has one of the
lowest in the developed world. This is because birth rate in Spain has decline
by 18% since 2008, as revealed by figures from Eurostat.
Also, between 1977 and 2015, the
number of couples with no child, tripled from 1.5 to 4.4 million, according to
the latest report by Spanish social and economic think tank, Funcas .
Accordingly, Prime Minister
Mariano Rajoy and Ms Barreira will draft a document for a national strategy of
demographic imbalances.
Spain's education ministry said
the declining birth-rate “aggravates other economic imbalances and generates
important 'impacts' in the Welfare State”, reports Spanish news site ABC .
Also speaking, Rafael Puyol, of
the IE Business School in Madrid, states tjat people are often too tired after
a full day at work and blamed long working hours and late nights for the
decrease.
He said: “They do not help with
making a family. Then a child arrives and it is even worse.”
This isn't the first time a
government has gone to extreme lengths to promote baby making.
In 2014 the Danish government ran
a “Do It For Denmark” campaign encouraging couples to procreate - which
apparently had a positive effect on the birth rate.
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