Monday, April 22, 2013

Pain’s population shrinks as immigrants flee economic crisis


     4/22                                                                                                                              from: bbc

Spain's population fell last year for the first time in ten years, as immigrants left the country amid a serious economic leaves. The National Statistic Institute (NSI) says that the number of residents dropped by 206,000 the decline entirely accounted for by
Europeans. Immigrants from Ecuador and Colombia showed the biggest fall. The numbers don’t take into accountt many Spanish people who left in search of work but they still on the census.

Vocabulary word: 
*Immigrants:  A person who leaves one country to stay for along time  in another.
*Economic: saving money or thrifty.
*Census: 
An official count or survey of a population
*crisis: problem.
*The National Statistic Institute: the government has an office; they count how many *people in the country, and write it in people’s account.  

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