Spain

[Connie B]

Hi everyone,

I just want to share some important demographic data.

Population:

47,042,984 (July 2011 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 15.1% (male 3,646,614/female 3,435,311)
15-64 years: 67.7% (male 16,036,556/female 15,637,090)
65 years and over: 17.1% (male 3,389,681/female 4,609,532) (2011 est.)

Languages:

Castilian Spanish (official) 74%
Catalan 17%
Galician 7%
Basque 2%

Online Demographics:

•65.6% of the population were internet users in December 2011 (Internet World Stats).
•The majority of internet users were aged between 25-34 during April/May 2012 (AIMC Data)
•Aged 14-19: 10.3% of users
•Aged 20-24: 9.9% users
•Aged 25-34: 25.1% of users
•Aged 35-44: 24.4% of users
•Aged 45-54: 15.4% of users
•Aged over 55-64: 8.4% of users
•Aged over 65: 6.5% of users

•Internet penetration keeps increasing in different Spanish autonomous regions (AIMC data)
•Andalucia: 56.2%
•Aragon: 61.3%
•Asturias: 50.7%
•Baleares: 62.1%
•Canarias: 60.3%
•Cantabrica: 46.8%
•Castilla/Leon: 52.8%
•Castilla/Mancha: 53.7%
•Cataluña: 66.7%
•Comunidad Valenciana: 56.3%
•Extremadura: 50.5%
•Galicia: 51.2%
•Madrid: 66.2%
•Murcia: 55.1%
•Navarra: 64.5%
•Pais Vasco: 60.6%
•La Rioja: 56.0%

•54.4% of the online population in Spain in April/May 2012 was male (AIMC data)
•91.1% internet users in April/May 2012 had home internet access (AIMC data)
•31.8% of the population between 16 and 74 years old) made purchases online some time in their life (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, October 2011)
•61.9% of households in Spain (almost 9.6 million dwellings) had a broadband internet connection (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, October 2011)
•44.5% of mobile subscribers in Spain used a smartphone (Comscore, August 2011)

Cheers,

Connie Burstin

[samantha.pacquiao]

an FYI, thanks

[casinobonusguy]

We hired a Spanish Employee this year and definitely was one of best things we have done.

[clarar]

Thanks for the info Connie!

[Maria F]

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[onemichael]

thanks for the info, wasnt aware that there are so many people in Spain

[ocreditor]

Thanks Connie. Time for us all to brush up on the Spanish, eh?