News | 24 Jan 2025

New Spanish strategy to address rural demographic challenge

The Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) will launch a public consultation in early 2025 to develop a new, cross-cutting national strategy for the demographic challenge, based on broad stakeholder participation.

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The new national strategy will support the continued repopulation of municipalities with fewer than 5 000 inhabitants, reflecting on lessons learned and successful experiences recorded since 2019. 

Explore a range of measures towards a holistic rural vision implemented in Spain and its regions, including the set-up of a General Secretariat for the Demographic Challenge and development of ‘Plan 130 to combat the demographic challenge’.