La población vizcaína en el siglo XVII: Tendencias dominantes

Abstract

The population of Bizkaia experimented a global stagnation in the 17th century, which was the result of a major urban loss and a certain rural gain in population, which amounts to a populational redistribution in favour of the peasants and a discreet vegetative growth in the peasant population. The actual evolution was as follows: 1) A critical and dismal phase at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century (first decade). 2) Recovery and stagnation by the mid thirties. 3) High and low periods with crises more or less every ten years and periods of recovery in between (1635-1655). 4) A phase of slow ascent with crises every ten years or so alternating with favourable stages (1666-1700).