New data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) reveals that the Canary Islands have the lowest mortality rate in Spain.
In fact the islands also boast among the lowest marriage and the birth rates in the country.
According to the INE the islands have a marriage rate of 2.64 per 100,000, nearly a full point below the national average, 3.58.
Not that we’re suggesting any correlation between the two, but the islands also have a ‘crude’ mortality rate of 6.52 per 100,000, again among the lowest in the country, compared to a national average of 8.4 deaths per 100,000.
The islands also have the fourth lowest birth rate in the country with 8.74 births per 100,000, 1.72 below the national average of 10.46, although birth rates have been declining across Spain since 2009.
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