Barcelona: a demographic revolution

A society like the frog in boiling water

In 2023, around 11,000 babies were born in Barcelona and around 15,000 people died. Despite this, Barcelona's population grew by more than 50,000 people, mainly due to foreign immigration (80% of new residents). Without this increase in the foreign population, there would be no housing crisis and no need to build new neighbourhoods and apartments.

In 2024, Catalan prisons held 24 prisoners convicted of rape, 22 of whom were foreigners (92%). In Barcelona, almost 80% of criminals arrested for theft, robbery and other crimes are foreigners. Among them are 25 repeat offenders who have been arrested 893 times in a single year. However, in January 2024, the foreign population in Barcelona was 25%.

Last year, public safety and access to housing were the issues that most concerned the people of Barcelona. The debate on solutions focuses on building more housing and increasing the presence of the police. However, for the sake of political correctness, our public discourse tends to avoid talking about immigration as a factor to be considered.

I have been fortunate to have lived in different countries and to have good friends from many different cultures. It is precisely because of the appreciation and, in some cases, love I feel for the different cultures I have known well that it seems so tragic to me that we are on the way to destroying them and replacing them with a uniform global culture of mobile, liquid and interchangeable consumers, as we approach social conflicts of incalculable proportions.

I know this is a feeling shared by many other people these days. However much we may be accused of serving the discourse of the far right, it is not because of hatred or rejection of immigrants or immigration itself. In many cases it is precisely we immigrants, like myself in Catalonia, who have migrated to a country because we are attracted by its people, its culture and its location, who are most concerned because what brought us here in the first place is changing for the worse and is in danger of disappearing in the not too distant future.

This is due to two demographic trends: the unprecedented collapse of the birth rate and the massive immigration of foreigners, which is largely intended to mitigate the first.

We are blindly heading towards demographic collapse and the replacement of the local population, and apparently no one wants to talk about the serious consequences.

But let's take it one step at a time. What is happening, why is it happening, what are and will be the consequences, and why should we care?