Cuenca has lost more than 20,400 inhabitants in six years. This is reflected in the data of the register published by the Statistics National Institute, which put the population of the province as of January 1, 2017 in 198,718 people, the lowest in 20 years.
This supposes a 2,353 inhabitants decrease compared to 2016. The province did not drop below 200,000 inhabitants since 1998, and then the figure was higher than today, with 199,000 residents. Also, since then and until 2011 the register of the province of Cuenca did not stop rising, to a greater or lesser extent.
However, since the province touched its ceiling of 219,000 inhabitants in 2011, the number has not stopped decreasing. He The steepest decline was from 2012 to 2013, when the province lost more than 6,000 residents, until touching in this 2017 the one that until now is his soil.
Between the greater populations, Cuenca has lost 226 neighbors and stands at 54,876 population. Tarancón its population is 14,834 people, Quintanar del Rey It is still the third town in the province with 7,533 neighbors although San Clemente it is already close, with 7,247 inhabitants.
The three increase their population, while the fifth municipality, Las Pedroñeras, has lost 135 inhabitants and remains at 6,581. Behind are Raven Speck, with just over 6,000 inhabitants, Motilla del Palancar with 5.929 and Iniesta with 4,300. The list of the ten most populated municipalities is closed Horcajo de Santiago and Casasimarro, with 3,500 and 3,000 neighbors respectively.
The smallest town in the province is Vindel, with ten neighbors, and in second and third place are Olmedilla de Eliz and Arandilla del Arroyo.
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