Publication: El descenso de la mortalidad en la España interior: Albacete y Ciudad Real, 1700-1895
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2015
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Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora (México)
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Durante el siglo xviii y los dos primeros tercios del xix, algunas provincias de la España interior, como Ávila y Guadalajara, no permanecieron totalmente ajenas al declive de la mortalidad que define la primera fase de la transición demográfica europea. ¿Sucedió algo parecido en otras áreas del interior caracterizadas por mayores niveles de desigualdad económica? Este artículo pretende despejar esa interrogante analizando los casos de las provincias de Albacete y Ciudad Real. Hemos usado la ratio óbitos-bautizados como proxy de la tasa bruta de mortalidad. La trayectoria de este indicador apunta a que la mortalidad también tendió a declinar a largo plazo en Albacete y Ciudad Real desde mediados del siglo xviii, aunque tal caída se vio interrumpida por la enérgica y transitoria involución de dicha variable entre 1800 y 1814, y por el repunte de la misma en el intervalo 1865-1889.
During the 18th century and the first two thirds of the 19th, some of Spain’s inland provinces, such as Avila and Guadalajara, were not completely exempt from the fall in the death rate which was a defining characteristic of the first phase of the demographic transition in Europe. Did something similar occur in other inland areas characterized by higher levels of inequality? This article aims to clear up this doubt through an analysis of the provinces of Albacete and Ciudad Real. We have used the deaths/baptisms ratio as a proxy of gross death rate. The path of this indicator suggests that the birth rate also tended to show a long term decline in Albacete and Ciudad Real from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, although this fall was halted through a noticeable regression of this variable between and its recovery in the period 1865-1889.
During the 18th century and the first two thirds of the 19th, some of Spain’s inland provinces, such as Avila and Guadalajara, were not completely exempt from the fall in the death rate which was a defining characteristic of the first phase of the demographic transition in Europe. Did something similar occur in other inland areas characterized by higher levels of inequality? This article aims to clear up this doubt through an analysis of the provinces of Albacete and Ciudad Real. We have used the deaths/baptisms ratio as a proxy of gross death rate. The path of this indicator suggests that the birth rate also tended to show a long term decline in Albacete and Ciudad Real from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, although this fall was halted through a noticeable regression of this variable between and its recovery in the period 1865-1889.