Spain Appoints its First Minister of Sex to Boost the Country’s Birth Rate

The Spanish Government has appointed a Minister of Sex in order to boost the country’s declining population and produce more babies.

According to reports from The Sun, Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy confirmed Edelmira Barreira as the country’s top sex official.

The nation is faced with a population crisis. Last year, for the first time, Spain’s deaths outnumbered its births. According to experts, they claim the reasons for the decline in births are: working long hours, eating late at night, and going to bed after midnight. In addition, youth unemployment rose to 48% in 2015, second only to Greece in Europe.

Since 2008, the number of births in Spain has plunged by 18%, and the number of childless couples has nearly tripled from 1.5million in 1977 to 4.4million in 2015.

Most Spanish women say they would like two or more children but in 2015 those aged 18 to 49 had an average of 1.3 children, below the EU figure of 1.58.

Spain’s education ministry said the declining birth-rate “aggravates other economic imbalances and generates important ‘impacts’ in the Welfare State.

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