I've been many times to south Spain and it looks everything but poor. I'm italian and I 'm so jealous of their great infrastructures, their nice, clean and well kept cities and villages. I wish we could look at least near to them!
And finally, I've only been once to southern Spain and I can guarantee you that it looks richer and with better infrastructure than the North of England
I agree. Wages are lower and jobs hard to come by but people seem to get by nicely. Andalucía doesn’t seem poor. It doesn’t seem specially rich either. Much of it is remote with poor physical connections. But a lot of Spain is like that and that’s down to topography. The main issue with Spain generally and also France and Portugal is that young people don’t want to live in remote regions such as the Sierra Nevada. They want to be in Palma or Malaga or Barcelona. It’s understandable but it’s a shame.
South of Spain actually is pretty amazing, with amazing airports, high speed trains, highways, clean, beautiful vibrant historic cities, Michelin star restaurants, ski resorts... It's not as wealthy as Basque Country or Madrid but I wouldn't call it "Poor"
It's because of the Islamic rule that lasted there longer and gave unique architecture and monuments like Al Hambra However the heart of the Spanish empire was in the center and north for centuries so they focused on building the economy of those regions while they ignored the south Had they used more resources from the Americas on the south it could've flourished better than today Franco dictatorship didn't help either
I love Southern Spain, Every year I go with the car to Morocco from The Netherlands and Southern Spain is by far the most beautifull area in Western Europe, The food is nice the people are friendly and the nature is beautifull. Cost of living is cheap and the architecture very similar to Morocco. I feel at home
There is one very important aspect that must be mentioned: logistics Spain is a very mountainous country and It is divided from France and the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees mountains with only 2 Highway connections through the mountains : one in Catalonia and one in the Basque Country. Therefore til the 90s transport of goods from the South of Spain to the European markets was very difficult . Today the ports of Valencia , Algeciras, Cartagena, Malaga even Huelva are all operating container ships and the Port of Valencia is more important than Bilbao or Barcelona. Huge fleets of frigo trucks have been created in Andalucia, Murcia, Valencia are running around all of Europe. Sadly, there are no real rail and road connections between Aragon (region located behind the Pyrenees in between Catalonia and the Basque región) and France which would change the regional political and economical balances in Spain completely.
@@eitkoml true, something like a Toulouse-Saragossa line in the Alps almost at all major routes base tunnels are built right now, from France to Turin in Italy, the Gotthard in Switzerland, the Brenner Base tunnel connecting Bavaria, Austria and Northern Italy and yet another one in the East, the Semmering Base tunnel, that will connect Czechia, Slovakia and Eastern Austria with a faster route to Trieste.
Southern Spain might have been relatively rich under Muslim rule but that was no longer the case after the reconquista. That's actually one of the reason why so many conquistadors and colonists came from Andalusia and Extremadura. They were so poor that it was better for them to seek new fortune or a new life in the Americas.
Funny that the video shows otherwise. Only in late century XIX and XX Andaluzia became one of the poorest regions, until then it was one of the wealthiest.
This video is ridicule Iam Spanish your argumenta is a nonsense ; says this un 2024 in a country with equal System redistribution of money interregional in constitution and the great developed in last décades in South Spain the video is rancid and obsolete
This is utter nonsense.While Southern Spain is not as wealthty as the north it certainly isn't as poor as the way you are painting it and certainly is no where near being the poorest in the EU. I live in Extremadura and live very very well. The standard of living is high. Better than many other EU countries.
@@themechanictangerine4337 The Basque Country is richer than some Dutch, Swedish and Austrian regions. Southern Spain is even surpassed by Slovenian and Polish regions. Be knowledgeable instead of being so lame.
@@IkerAndoni89 No it is not, no parts of the Netherlands or Austria are poorer than the Basque country and their GDP per capita as a whole is much higher than the Basque Country. You even see some Basques emigrating to the Netherlands and other rich European countries, you see no Dutch or Austrians emigrating to the Basque country, not even Southern Spaniards emigrate there in large numbers like before
If andalucia and Spain is what poor looks like then I don’t want to be rich, I’ve seen how it is to live in major US cities and I don’t think that’s higher standard of living tbh.
Southern Portugal faces a similar problem, the only difference is that Portugal as a whole is a more peripherical country, more centralised, making wealth regional inequality more nuanced than in Spain.
Southern Spain is rich AF, but they don't declare that money. Nowhere on Earth I've seen so many people living a nice life without working a for a single minute any day lol
less settlements means less trade which means poverty & nothern spain was closer to europes core. trade balance between middle east and europe changed when new trade routes were discovered
In 2024 with great comunications in South Spain aparte the title of video is very exagerated i have seen many times North and South of Spain Iam Spanish
True, and it's not just Spain, look at the UK, the south part of it is richer and likely because it's closer to richer regions in Europe, or Italy, the north is richer and again, it's closer to richer regions in Europe. So it does seem like the richer regions are to a given country, the more likely it's going to have a knock on effect, something we are very likely going to see with the eastern EU countries, as they become richer, it will have a knock on effect to other countries further east as well as existing countries to the west in the EU, we also see the same in Germany where the west is richer then the east, but that's for other reasons being divided during the Cold War, it's also likely as the eastern EU countries continue to develop, it will have a knock on effect on Eastern Germany which should boost economic growth. Maybe a rebalancing of wealth is needed when it comes to countries like the UK and Spain because clearly, there's a big advantage to the south of the UK and the north of Italy, which makes it much harder for the other side to compete because of geographic. As for Spain, I never got a sense of the south of Spain being poor, in fact, this is the first I've heard of it and thought all of Spain is quite well off.
@@paul1979uk2000 UK is a bit of a different issue. The issue in the UK is that all the power and industry has been essentially centralised to London. This is why even places in the south are poor, as they do not have good connections to London. This is being slight resolved with Manchester getting lots of investment, but it will fail if the gov does not create good infrastructure for the regions around Manchester. For Spain, it's a bit more difficult. The poverty of the south stems from the natural growth of industries in the area's that Franco had prioritised. As the southern regions actively were underdeveloped during that period and the natural divide that grew from that, it's now not as simple as rebalancing the wealth. Industries need to be built out of the existing services the south can offer and once these have been developed, you can look at rebalancing the wealth. There is also the issue of climate change, which means extreme weather can affect the growth of these industries.
It used to be the richest and the region was home to one of the largest public companies in history. It may be the poorest region in the US now but it alone powered the US honestly until the US decided to institute the US dollar and had a civil war. The US economy was powered by slavery but not anymore so the Mississippi is poor and the descendants are bitter.
The climate is another contributing factor. The heat of the south would have had an affect on workers in the pre-air conditioned era compared to the cooler north west climate.
@@Benito-lr8mzpero eres de España. Estamos hablando de los musulmanes y árabes q pertenecían allá antes. Estaban más adecuados a los rayos del sol semejantes a como los suecos florecen sin mucho sol.
The south of Spain is not such a poor land now, compared to the north (as when the economy was very rural), as if they were two different worlds. They are basically the same modern services. I live in the south of Spain and the high-speed train has just arrived here, an electric luxury car company has opened, and we have just developed the first Spanish space rocket, in addition to discovering genetic engineering techniques. The south is closing the gap rapidly, and that is happening throughout the planet: South-North. The explanation for the historical delay is not the Islamists, nor Catholic Spain (Catholic Germany is rich) or the expulsion of the Jews (6 out of 7 Jews stayed in Spain, converted into converts and continuing with their businesses, after 1492) The Arabs of the peninsula have no influence on poverty. Islamic Córdoba, in Spain, was the most advanced city in Europe in the 9th-11th centuries. Greater medicine, technology, culture, army, marble palaces, public baths, scientists, intellectual women. At that time Europe was ruined. Paris, London, Amsterdam, were wooden towns, with mud in the streets, diseases, fanaticism, poverty. The cold was a problem for development, as after globalization and industrialization the problem has been the heat, to compete with the great development of Europe. Southern Spain, southern Italy, Greece, Portugal... In general, the southern regions of Europe historically have more problems due to the distance to trade with the rest of Europe, and the intense heat 5 months a year, and drought. A merchant from Andalusia or Sicily had to travel 40 days or more, by horse cart, in any century, to carry his trade to Germany or Belgium... A merchant from Catalonia or the Basque Country took 20 days. A French merchant crossed the border from Germany, Switzerland or Belgium, and returned home for dinner. That is not competitive for the south (and the same or greater problem has the Maghreb, or the rest of Africa) when the majority of the European population lives in fertile, green regions, with rain, and river routes, in Central Europe, irrigated by the trade of England and the Netherlands, and they are not peninsulas. While Spain had a huge reinvestment of 70% of wealth (80% in the 18th century), to turn Spanish America into a western region. Now, with air conditioning, modern freight transport and Internet sales techniques, Spain, Greece and Portugal are closing the gap with the north. The south of Spain or Italy are closing the gap with the north of these countries. And Africa and other regions of the world are also modernizing, slower or faster.
Industrialisation occured in Catalonia the the Basque Country in the 19th century because they was a bourgeoisie used to trade with abroad. In the South of Spain, it was still a Medieval society, with high nobility and poor peasants. In the North, peasants were free and owned their land. Madrid only became a rich region after 1969, when the spanisg government invested all the public ressources in Madrid to industrialise it.
People all over Spain live well and all regions have some of the highest life expectancies in the world, the south of Spain is not poor, plenty of golf courses and country clubs’ living the good life.
Another factor was that the coal, tin and iron mines were mostly in the Northern areas of Asturias, the Basque country and Cataluna. Much like Sheffield in the UK and the Ruhr in Germany... Industry was based close to where the resources were to be found.... As to what kept Southern Spain poorer also, the Catholic Church had a larger impact in social life in the South than in the North during the 1800s. In the South, most education, both primary and university was by the Church, in the North, where there was more of an entrepreneurial spirit and more workers unions, due to mining and basic industry, literacy was much more widespread. During the Spanish Civil War, these areas were bastions of leftism and extremely anti religious
Spain is one of the most developed countries in the world with the 15th largest economy in the world how is that poor? This video makes no sense! Ive been to southern spain it is not poor Spaniards live very well!
@@simetric6551 research and development can happen in dry places. But you need skills and capital, something that is more likely in places, that had water during the industrial revolution.
@Hession0Drasha yes that's true but you don't need to be an industrial power to be rich. You mentioned the industrial revolution and you think that's the only way to become rich, thinking about USA, Japan and Northern Europe but Australia is dryer than Spain and it doesn't have any significant industry, Australia is and has been a rich country since it was founded
@danghoangluong2942 it's the opposite in England, and it's literally Western. East in Germany, countries tend to be divided economically. Sometimes, they create patterns, not always North and South
@@reggie69.I have a sense that the regions that are closer to richer regions are richer for it, so the south of the UK being closer to the rich European mainland, the north of Italy for the same reasons, the west of Germany and so on, and it kinda makes sense that more economic development will happen closer to richer regions.
If you are funcionario, high qualified salary man or expath with remote job, richman of any kind, retiree, rentist... not for the average young people with 50% of unemployment.
@@Darknight73457 Tell me you’ve never been to southern Spain without telling me. Teens don’t work cause they can afford not to while getting their education. Their parents can afford their university while they focus on studying. Food there is way cheaper than in the rest of the country and so is everything else. Yet the minimum salary is still the same. You can perfectly live with two minimum salaries which doesn’t really happen in the rest of Spain, at least one of the two parents would need to do some higher qualified job to reach the end of the month with their stomachs full
@@imb5128 yeah, quality of life is to live with two SMI, enjoy sun while eating peanuts with aceitunas and to need social aid even for study, oh yeah. España está en la mierda, y Andalucía ni te cuento. Un desempleo juvenil del 50% es un auténtico drama social, por mucho que lo hayamos asumido como normal. A partir de ahí, que cada uno se engañe como quiera, pero para mi felicidad y CALIDAD DE VIDA es lo que hay en Finlandia, donde apenas nadie tiene problemas para llegar a fin de mes o irse de vacaciones en verano a donde les salga de la p...
It's common knowledge that the south is poor because of underinvestment from absentee landlords who didn't give a shit about the people. In fact they despised the poor. The landlords could remain very rich at the expense of the poor in a system that remained medieval until the 1960's. We shouldn't forget that there much of the north was in extreme poverty too. Galicians were amongst the highest quantity of emigrants in Spain. Plenty of poverty in the north. Read Bunuel's brilliant autobiography to understand how the region of Aragon during his childhood had seen no change since the middle ages. Toledo is the border for me. Once you go south of that it feels like a different country. I love this channel and this isn't a bad effort to explain the disparity of wealth but it's so much more complicated. Any mention of Islamic Spain, whilst interesting, is pointless in this context as it really is ancient history. The comparative poverty of Andalucía and Extremadura cannot be explained by events 500 years ago. We're talking about a 500 year problem. The south remained poor because the landowning class hated the poor and treated them as animals to further their wealth. The peasants and any opposition to this way of life were punished in ways that would be considered war crimes today during the Civil War. After the war they were starved into submission, hence the massive amount of internal migration to the north. I have family in the north and was married in Bilbao but I have a home 2 km from the coast east of Malaga in the south. Two very different worlds. One is mainland Europe and the other is Mediterranean. The north has industry and a recognisable EU kind of way of life. The south, despite its poverty, is life and generates life. It's why the people of the north flock to the south. In my experience I have to say that the people of the south are happier than the people of the north.
Sounds like you have a place somewhere behind Pedregalejo. I lived there for a year 24 years ago. I'd love to be able to do it again. I agree with all you points by the way.
He explained how the different social structures between the north and south led to the south's poverty. That emerged during the Reconquista. The south's horrible social structure where a few aristocrats owned all of the land was also transferred to the western hemisphere from Mexico and Cuba all the way south to Argentina. The Portuguese did the same thing in Brazil too.
Protestantism....they were starving to death until early last century in Northern Europe. And where are the beautiful and monumental cities of Southern Europe there with all their culture and history. Nowere to be seen. Children were working in coal mines in Great Britain until not so long ago. By the way, the richest area of Central Europe as Belgium, Germany and Austria were Catholics too.
I read it was initially absentee landlords. The north of England housed the mills and the coal mines and those who worked in them. As soon as they could the owners moved south. Closer to London and where the weather was better. The land richer. It still suffers.
It was a nice history lesson but most of this, especially everything from before the industrial revolution, has no effect on the economy today. South is hotter and more arid so there's a lower capacity for population growth. It's also got more retirées, that alone explains a huge part of the difference. The rest is likely down to regulation/governance of regional governments.
There seems to be much variation in that scatter plot. Perhaps would be good to add an R^2 value and the assoiated P value as well as the slope. As presented I don't find the data convincing.
Spain would have a poor country without Catalonia and Basque Country. No wonder the fascist Spanish government never allowed Basque and Catalonia to run their own independent nations. Spain must be dissolved !
Spain is not a poor country. Best health care in the world and highest standard of living with 10s of 1000s leaving the United States for a better life.
It's simply because southern Italy is much further from commercial routes in Europe. In fact it was very rich when the Mediterranean was the centre of the world. Overall though southern Italy is a much more stress free society compared to northern Europe, as shown by having one of the lowest amount of m*rders and r*pes in Europe, and one of the highest life expectancy
@@Bolognabeef As you may or may not know.. Southern Italy is a very close-knit community, which means everyone knows everyone else. People know their police officers, which means that further harm may come to you if you say anything against them. This is why the mafia has also been able to operate without any scrutiny there. So yes, the number of REPORTED crimes may be down, but I wouldn't say that they're much safer than in the north.
That might as well be the story of Brazil. Southern states have GDPs comparable to European countries, while northern states can be compared to southern African countries. The reasons were pretty much the same.
Almost every economic problem is caused by wealth inequality or concentration of power in the hands of power. Surprisingly it's like we never learn from history
What you describe to have happened in the Spanish South is very similar to what the tech barons and billionaires do these days. So, is a dystopian future inevitable?
It's a normal thing in practically every country in the world the economic division south north or east west Only very small countries do not suffer from divisions It's the same in Italy, in France, in Belgium, in England and Germany, on the contrary, the southern part is richer than the northern part in Russia the western part is richer than the eastern part, while in China the eastern part is richer than the western part it is normal that where there is more opportunity for trade, along the border areas or where there is a lot of water, societies and large urban centers develop which over time become more and more numerous and will end up concentrating wealth there
That's what I think and not just with Spain, we also see the same thing with the UK, Italy, Germany and other countries, the regions in those countries that are closer to other rich regions in Europe, seem to do far better economically. Considering this seems to happen in a lot of countries and not just in Europe, it can't be by chance, and it makes sense, more trade, business and growth is usually going to happen in regions that are closer to other rich regions.
Very similar explanation. In fact, southern Italy was latifundist and touristic with slavery economy since the roman era, when the north was already very "industrial".
The diference between south and north ,its small ,compare countries in third world tonmorr developed ,its exagerated to call por south Spain ,you have no idea
I live in southern Andalusia and we have a water festival each year to celebrate its abundance. Also my local town is ( in Arabic ) known as the land of springs. No shortage of water here.
No part of the world that has ever been predominately Muslim is wealthy today, unless it has lots of oil. The same with Sicily. Spare me your complex rationalization meant to avoid the non-PC truth.
And there are two main reasons for that: One, Muslim states like the Ottoman Empire got very rich through control over vital trade routes, but the discovery of the Americas caused their fortunes to shift dramatically. Their positions were nowhere near as valuable as they once were, because the Atlantic became a whole lot more important than the Mediterranean for global trade, sending them into decline. We know it had nothing to do with religion because the same thing happened to Christian Mediterranean trade hubs like Venice. And Two, decades of colonial exploitation and interference tend to kneecap a country's economic future. It's hard to get rich when global superpowers keep destabilising your politics and pushing unfair trade agreements on you.
Thank you ever so. Your excellent videos provide a clear and objective overview. Your gestures are precise on the intent. Your accent is light therefore comprehention is great! Keep it up. You are a gift to intelligence!
If you don’t know about Spanish history and politics you better keep your mouth shut instead of misleading people with false assumptions. In any case concentrating wealth is common in many cases. For example the UK - poor North and rich South-, France - rich Paris poor rest of the country-, etc. An exception is Germany due to a disruptive war. On the other hand Spain has not gone through a communist period but a socialist period with similar consequences mainly due to high taxes and blaming entrepreneurs for all the bad things, similar to Italy or Greece politics. Catalonia is becoming poor in any case as capital is getting away from local politics.
I think you got lost in the weeds and overlooked the obvious - the CAPITAL city ie the centre of trade where all the capital is located moved to the north.
Bad video. Germany, Italy, France check all the boxes you mentioned as reasons. The reason northern Spain has more industry and is richer is because it's closer to other centers of industry like France, Italy, Britain so trade is shorter and easier. 'on top of that, during Franko's rule, people were leaving inland Spain to settle on the coast which now contains over 90% of all of Spain's inhabitants with the exception of Madrid.
@dreadhead5719 while it's true, Gibraltar manages itself completely independently. The only thing the UK controls in Gibraltar is literally the military, so it might as well be considered independent, the UK economy shouldn't even be compared to Gibraltar, though , as Gibraltar is also two times Richer than the UK, I'm only saying it because people are saying such simpleton stuff like because it's warmer and rubbish that can be easily debunked by just using your brain why is Southern England so much wealthier than everywhere above it in the UK when the north is colder I was actually going to say Singapore, but I remembered Gibraltar is literally under Spain.
I think Spain should try to reduce unemployed Andalusian youth professionals by encouraging them to immigrate to Latin America and the Philippines and become entrepreneurs.
Is that really a solution? Isn't there large scale immigration from many of those countries because they are economic basket cases / their educated youth are leaving because of lack of opportunities in their own countries? The question is why don't more educated Spanish unemployed find jobs elsewhere in the EU? Isn't that the purpose of free movement of labour within the EU? Or why doesn't the Spanish government reform the structural problems in Spain that makes employers reluctant to hire someone long term?
I would say that regions in the north being better connected to Europe and major ports that where connected to the Americas is also a strong factor. So great part of the economic power of the north is tied to the fall of the Arabic world’s economic power. Other factors like natural resources being concentrated in parts like the bask country also has helped the industrialization of the region. The mixture of natural resources like mines with a strong port has helped the bask region and Catalunya being connected with France has always had foreign influence from other meditaran countries.
No Iam Spanish and this video is rancid anachronic and obsolete in 2024 the diferencies no is Big is ridiculuous the South no is hell lol in Italy the diference is big
Also regarding population density... What's portrayed here is not quite accurate. Lands between Madrid and the coast have a really low population density. Population is concentrated in Madrid and then in the coasts. Also, you're not considering that in the last half of the XIXth century Spain lost most of its colonies (Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, etc.) This also had a big impact in the south which was largely benefited by trade with the American territories.
Additionally, decision of developing industries in the north and neglecting it in the south was largely political and sponsored by Fascist dictatorship during XXth century.
This is very timely, I'm going to Andalusia and Extremadura this year. I hear it's supposed to be quite nice, however, Granada and Caceres in particular.
Northern Cáceres is a hidden treasure off the more beaten paths (at least by foreign tourists). Granada is amazing too. Sevilla, Córdoba, Cádiz... too much to see in a trip.
@@marcv2648 No it doesn't. This is the kind of answer from someone who doesn't read history. Socialism hardly had a real influence in the economic history of Latin America up to the 21st century.
Seems like the south has more of a Mediterranean culture whereas the north has more of a Northern European culture? Southern Italy and Greece similarly don’t have great economies! Also interesting that southern Spain was where so many South Americans decamped from and brought along their culture to the new world, the estancia system setup in the new world led to outrageous inequality, where I live there were only two families that owned the land where 5 million people now live on!
Heat is no friend of economic development. Just compare northern and southern Italy, southern and northern Brazil, southern South America in general vs tropical Latin America, in Asia it’s a bit mixed but still Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia versus Japan, South Korea and China.
Southern Germany is richer than Northern Germany, southern England is richer than Northern England. Singapore, the Emirates are rich, Siberia is poor. Please don't study on memes
@@marcoac-sx6lq Perhaps not the best examples. Heat can absolutely make a difference but so can extreme cold. It's difficult to operate efficiently in both. Access to water is important for both agriculture and industry. Germany, England, Singapore and Emirates are all relatively homogenous when it comes to their internal climates so it's not a factor within their own boarders. The climate is absolutely not the only factor but it can be an important one. There's for an example a reason the UAE and Saudi Arabia were extremely sparsely populated before the oil came into the picture. It has enabled them to make their countries more hospitable for larger populations in regards of cooling, desalination, import of food/goods and of course work opportunities. UAE went from a population of just 75 000 in 1950 to the current 9,5 million (population increase of 12 556 %). Absolutely bonkers. =P Saudi Arabia went from 3 million to 37,5 million in the same time period (population increase of 1150 %). This might all come to an end the day the oil dries up which of course both nations are worried about.
I’m heavily considering moving to Spain, so I’m trying to find different viewpoints on Spain that are not just the “oh my God it’s picturesque and perfect with free healthcare!” But this video seems to make a lot of huge leaps in logic A lot has happened between the middle ages and now so constantly referring back to it seems a little weird I’m considering moving to the cheaper places like Seville - I guess I’ll just have to find out for myself Can’t be as bad as Ohio, I’ll tell you that much right now.
It is really difficult to make the decision to move to a country as locals exaggerate and tourists are biased by their holidays' experience. I am a Spaniard and I know many here like to say "we have the best food, the best weather, the best social life, the best health system, the best quality of life...". Actually, it all depends on your own taste and likings. Sure, Spain is a very diverse country, so somewhere there is a balance. I have lived abroad and worked and visited many countries and many places are nice. Overall, I have to admit Spain is a good place to live if you have a good income, not because it is expensive but because you get really good value for it. Beware, Spain is not a good place to find a job or to deal with red tape, but if your income comes from abroad or you are a retiree it is a good choice. Where exactly in Spain? I prefer the center as I like to move around and explore our diverse country; I don't need to live by the sea and suffer overcrowded beaches in summer, I prefer the emptiness and prices of the interior, but each person is different. Better, seek advice, ask some people from your country who live here.
Free education too much to handle your own i was thinking when i was lost my car i should make garbage collecting bags then it could be easily collected and i could make some money 💰 seems no one intrested in so my determination died out
That is wrong, Greece is richer than most of the other countries in the Balkans. Spain is richer than most of the former Eastern bloc countries. But, that was a nice theory.
Used to be that way in the Southern US. The US South has a larger economy than US North now. South Carolina has the second highest industrialization of any state after Indiana. Northern and Southern stats for the US have had a huge reversal over the past 50 years.
You lives in South suposse the very exagerated of video title in past décades or a century ago is some possibly today absolutly no is this exagerated terms the quality of Life is close similar for the money redistribution in Spanish System
The south of Spain has been screwed over by the government in Madrid for nearly ninety years. That's why it's so poor. That's also why there is so much undeclared wealth in Andalusia.
I've been many times to south Spain and it looks everything but poor. I'm italian and I 'm so jealous of their great infrastructures, their nice, clean and well kept cities and villages. I wish we could look at least near to them!
And finally, I've only been once to southern Spain and I can guarantee you that it looks richer and with better infrastructure than the North of England
South Spain is not that poor as statistics tells us. There is a lot of "uncounted" money in circulation!
so the mafia is more active in the south?
Very very exagerated title for clickbait
Economists rely on statistics and most of them talk out of their @rse most of the time!
I agree. Wages are lower and jobs hard to come by but people seem to get by nicely. Andalucía doesn’t seem poor. It doesn’t seem specially rich either. Much of it is remote with poor physical connections. But a lot of Spain is like that and that’s down to topography. The main issue with Spain generally and also France and Portugal is that young people don’t want to live in remote regions such as the Sierra Nevada. They want to be in Palma or Malaga or Barcelona. It’s understandable but it’s a shame.
@@Benito-lr8mz Looking at spains GDP it's not clickbait. They're poor asf for where they should be.
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South of Spain actually is pretty amazing, with amazing airports, high speed trains, highways, clean, beautiful vibrant historic cities, Michelin star restaurants, ski resorts... It's not as wealthy as Basque Country or Madrid but I wouldn't call it "Poor"
All I know is, Andalusia has the rest beat on nice cities. Granada, Sevilla, Cordoba, Nerja, Ronda etc.
It's because of the Islamic rule that lasted there longer and gave unique architecture and monuments like Al Hambra
However the heart of the Spanish empire was in the center and north for centuries so they focused on building the economy of those regions while they ignored the south
Had they used more resources from the Americas on the south it could've flourished better than today
Franco dictatorship didn't help either
And yet property is soo cheap in Cordoba compared to big cities in the north, or even Valencia
The heart of Muslim Spain was in the south, though. Why couldn’t they stay ahead with this head start?
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Who are you talking about ?
Mijas with their donkey taxis is also something unique to visit.
I love Southern Spain, Every year I go with the car to Morocco from The Netherlands and Southern Spain is by far the most beautifull area in Western Europe, The food is nice the people are friendly and the nature is beautifull. Cost of living is cheap and the architecture very similar to Morocco. I feel at home
There is one very important aspect that must be mentioned: logistics
Spain is a very mountainous country and It is divided from France and the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees mountains with only 2 Highway connections through the mountains : one in Catalonia and one in the Basque Country.
Therefore til the 90s transport of goods from the South of Spain to the European markets was very difficult . Today the ports of Valencia , Algeciras, Cartagena, Malaga even Huelva are all operating container ships and the Port of Valencia is more important than Bilbao or Barcelona. Huge fleets of frigo trucks have been created in Andalucia, Murcia, Valencia are running around all of Europe. Sadly, there are no real rail and road connections between Aragon (region located behind the Pyrenees in between Catalonia and the Basque región) and France which would change the regional political and economical balances in Spain completely.
It sounds like the Pyrenees could use a tunnel. Maybe two or three of them.
@@eitkoml true, something like a Toulouse-Saragossa line
in the Alps almost at all major routes base tunnels are built right now, from France to Turin in Italy, the Gotthard in Switzerland, the Brenner Base tunnel connecting Bavaria, Austria and Northern Italy and yet another one in the East, the Semmering Base tunnel, that will connect Czechia, Slovakia and Eastern Austria with a faster route to Trieste.
Southern Spain might have been relatively rich under Muslim rule but that was no longer the case after the reconquista. That's actually one of the reason why so many conquistadors and colonists came from Andalusia and Extremadura. They were so poor that it was better for them to seek new fortune or a new life in the Americas.
Same with Southern Italy! Many South Italians migrated to the Americas
Funny that the video shows otherwise. Only in late century XIX and XX Andaluzia became one of the poorest regions, until then it was one of the wealthiest.
@@redstream1237Muslims left Italy almost 800 years before unification. 😂
This video is ridicule Iam Spanish your argumenta is a nonsense ; says this un 2024 in a country with equal System redistribution of money interregional in constitution and the great developed in last décades in South Spain the video is rancid and obsolete
@@Benito-lr8mzdo you live in the Southern Spain or Northern Spain?
This is utter nonsense.While Southern Spain is not as wealthty as the north it certainly isn't as poor as the way you are painting it and certainly is no where near being the poorest in the EU. I live in Extremadura and live very very well. The standard of living is high. Better than many other EU countries.
Southern Spain is not one of the poorest places in Europe
It is.
@@IkerAndoni89No, it is not and the Basque country is very poor compared to many European countries like Sweden or Austria😂
@@themechanictangerine4337 The Basque Country is richer than some Dutch, Swedish and Austrian regions. Southern Spain is even surpassed by Slovenian and Polish regions. Be knowledgeable instead of being so lame.
@@IkerAndoni89 No it is not, no parts of the Netherlands or Austria are poorer than the Basque country and their GDP per capita as a whole is much higher than the Basque Country. You even see some Basques emigrating to the Netherlands and other rich European countries, you see no Dutch or Austrians emigrating to the Basque country, not even Southern Spaniards emigrate there in large numbers like before
@@IkerAndoni89 Thanks to the taxes of the rest of the Spaniards
Spain is pure Magic. Nothing like that in Europe. Otherwise nothing of Europe in exotic places around world. So....pure Magic.
Portugal is better. Central Italy is better. Southern Poland is better.
@@leosharman8630Portugal sucks
@@leosharman8630no, no and no
@@leosharman8630 no
If andalucia and Spain is what poor looks like then I don’t want to be rich, I’ve seen how it is to live in major US cities and I don’t think that’s higher standard of living tbh.
Southern Portugal faces a similar problem, the only difference is that Portugal as a whole is a more peripherical country, more centralised, making wealth regional inequality more nuanced than in Spain.
Spain has the best life expentacy of Europe. Industrialization doesn't mean better quality of life.
Southern Spain is rich AF, but they don't declare that money. Nowhere on Earth I've seen so many people living a nice life without working a for a single minute any day lol
less settlements means less trade which means poverty & nothern spain was closer to europes core.
trade balance between middle east and europe changed when new trade routes were discovered
In 2024 with great comunications in South Spain aparte the title of video is very exagerated i have seen many times North and South of Spain Iam Spanish
finally, an intelligent answer
True, and it's not just Spain, look at the UK, the south part of it is richer and likely because it's closer to richer regions in Europe, or Italy, the north is richer and again, it's closer to richer regions in Europe.
So it does seem like the richer regions are to a given country, the more likely it's going to have a knock on effect, something we are very likely going to see with the eastern EU countries, as they become richer, it will have a knock on effect to other countries further east as well as existing countries to the west in the EU, we also see the same in Germany where the west is richer then the east, but that's for other reasons being divided during the Cold War, it's also likely as the eastern EU countries continue to develop, it will have a knock on effect on Eastern Germany which should boost economic growth.
Maybe a rebalancing of wealth is needed when it comes to countries like the UK and Spain because clearly, there's a big advantage to the south of the UK and the north of Italy, which makes it much harder for the other side to compete because of geographic.
As for Spain, I never got a sense of the south of Spain being poor, in fact, this is the first I've heard of it and thought all of Spain is quite well off.
lot of stuff seems to flow near gibraltar area though... not all accounted in official taxes though :D
@@paul1979uk2000 UK is a bit of a different issue. The issue in the UK is that all the power and industry has been essentially centralised to London. This is why even places in the south are poor, as they do not have good connections to London. This is being slight resolved with Manchester getting lots of investment, but it will fail if the gov does not create good infrastructure for the regions around Manchester.
For Spain, it's a bit more difficult. The poverty of the south stems from the natural growth of industries in the area's that Franco had prioritised. As the southern regions actively were underdeveloped during that period and the natural divide that grew from that, it's now not as simple as rebalancing the wealth. Industries need to be built out of the existing services the south can offer and once these have been developed, you can look at rebalancing the wealth. There is also the issue of climate change, which means extreme weather can affect the growth of these industries.
The Mississippi Delta is the poorest region of the US.
In the modern era.
@@zico739 Since the south lost their slaves.
It used to be the richest and the region was home to one of the largest public companies in history. It may be the poorest region in the US now but it alone powered the US honestly until the US decided to institute the US dollar and had a civil war. The US economy was powered by slavery but not anymore so the Mississippi is poor and the descendants are bitter.
Their slaves?
@@giacobbeperales5926 Freed after confederacy lost civil war.
Amazing that Spain, heartland of the great Spanish Empire, was so fragmented and disconnected even during its zenith.
The climate is another contributing factor. The heat of the south would have had an affect on workers in the pre-air conditioned era compared to the cooler north west climate.
Iam Spanish the South no is hell all year lol in Granada for exemple more times in year has a tempeartures down 0 degrees celsius
@@Benito-lr8mzpero eres de España. Estamos hablando de los musulmanes y árabes q pertenecían allá antes. Estaban más adecuados a los rayos del sol semejantes a como los suecos florecen sin mucho sol.
@@kendellfriend5558Los musulmanes nunca pertenecieron allá. Los musulmanes llegaron e invadieron.
Also the coal and iron mines necessary for the start of the industrial revolution are located in the North.
Yet one of the largest mining Trusts on earth is called Rio Tinto, after a river in Andalusia, where copper and other ores were mined.
ur so handsome
The south of Spain is not such a poor land now, compared to the north (as when the economy was very rural), as if they were two different worlds. They are basically the same modern services. I live in the south of Spain and the high-speed train has just arrived here, an electric luxury car company has opened, and we have just developed the first Spanish space rocket, in addition to discovering genetic engineering techniques. The south is closing the gap rapidly, and that is happening throughout the planet: South-North.
The explanation for the historical delay is not the Islamists, nor Catholic Spain (Catholic Germany is rich) or the expulsion of the Jews (6 out of 7 Jews stayed in Spain, converted into converts and continuing with their businesses, after 1492)
The Arabs of the peninsula have no influence on poverty. Islamic Córdoba, in Spain, was the most advanced city in Europe in the 9th-11th centuries. Greater medicine, technology, culture, army, marble palaces, public baths, scientists, intellectual women. At that time Europe was ruined. Paris, London, Amsterdam, were wooden towns, with mud in the streets, diseases, fanaticism, poverty. The cold was a problem for development, as after globalization and industrialization the problem has been the heat, to compete with the great development of Europe.
Southern Spain, southern Italy, Greece, Portugal... In general, the southern regions of Europe historically have more problems due to the distance to trade with the rest of Europe, and the intense heat 5 months a year, and drought. A merchant from Andalusia or Sicily had to travel 40 days or more, by horse cart, in any century, to carry his trade to Germany or Belgium... A merchant from Catalonia or the Basque Country took 20 days. A French merchant crossed the border from Germany, Switzerland or Belgium, and returned home for dinner. That is not competitive for the south (and the same or greater problem has the Maghreb, or the rest of Africa) when the majority of the European population lives in fertile, green regions, with rain, and river routes, in Central Europe, irrigated by the trade of England and the Netherlands, and they are not peninsulas. While Spain had a huge reinvestment of 70% of wealth (80% in the 18th century), to turn Spanish America into a western region.
Now, with air conditioning, modern freight transport and Internet sales techniques, Spain, Greece and Portugal are closing the gap with the north. The south of Spain or Italy are closing the gap with the north of these countries. And Africa and other regions of the world are also modernizing, slower or faster.
''In such a bad way" the most Brittish thing I've ever heard hahahha
Industrialisation occured in Catalonia the the Basque Country in the 19th century because they was a bourgeoisie used to trade with abroad. In the South of Spain, it was still a Medieval society, with high nobility and poor peasants. In the North, peasants were free and owned their land.
Madrid only became a rich region after 1969, when the spanisg government invested all the public ressources in Madrid to industrialise it.
People all over Spain live well and all regions have some of the highest life expectancies in the world, the south of Spain is not poor, plenty of golf courses and country clubs’ living the good life.
Another factor was that the coal, tin and iron mines were mostly in the Northern areas of Asturias, the Basque country and Cataluna. Much like Sheffield in the UK and the Ruhr in Germany... Industry was based close to where the resources were to be found.... As to what kept Southern Spain poorer also, the Catholic Church had a larger impact in social life in the South than in the North during the 1800s. In the South, most education, both primary and university was by the Church, in the North, where there was more of an entrepreneurial spirit and more workers unions, due to mining and basic industry, literacy was much more widespread. During the Spanish Civil War, these areas were bastions of leftism and extremely anti religious
The regions of the south of Spain are heavily subsidized. They have no incentive to develop their economies.
The problem in southern spain is submerged economy
Spain is one of the most developed countries in the world with the 15th largest economy in the world how is that poor? This video makes no sense! Ive been to southern spain it is not poor Spaniards live very well!
Lack of water, reduces the amount of industry that is possible.
There was no lack of water in the south until recently.
Tell that to Israel and 500 year ago there was no water either
@@simetric6551 research and development can happen in dry places. But you need skills and capital, something that is more likely in places, that had water during the industrial revolution.
@Hession0Drasha yes that's true but you don't need to be an industrial power to be rich. You mentioned the industrial revolution and you think that's the only way to become rich, thinking about USA, Japan and Northern Europe but Australia is dryer than Spain and it doesn't have any significant industry, Australia is and has been a rich country since it was founded
Odd
I live in southern Andalusia and we have a water festival every year to celebrate its abundance.
That happens everywhere in Europe not just Spain!
Not in Germany or England
Same as why south of Italy and France are poor, the hood.
@danghoangluong2942 it's the opposite in England, and it's literally Western. East in Germany, countries tend to be divided economically. Sometimes, they create patterns, not always North and South
South France is richer@@cx3929
@@reggie69.I have a sense that the regions that are closer to richer regions are richer for it, so the south of the UK being closer to the rich European mainland, the north of Italy for the same reasons, the west of Germany and so on, and it kinda makes sense that more economic development will happen closer to richer regions.
Please visit southern Spain and tell me about it's poverty. Probably the region with the highest quality of life in the world.
If you are funcionario, high qualified salary man or expath with remote job, richman of any kind, retiree, rentist... not for the average young people with 50% of unemployment.
@@Darknight73457 Tell me you’ve never been to southern Spain without telling me. Teens don’t work cause they can afford not to while getting their education. Their parents can afford their university while they focus on studying. Food there is way cheaper than in the rest of the country and so is everything else. Yet the minimum salary is still the same. You can perfectly live with two minimum salaries which doesn’t really happen in the rest of Spain, at least one of the two parents would need to do some higher qualified job to reach the end of the month with their stomachs full
@@imb5128 yeah, quality of life is to live with two SMI, enjoy sun while eating peanuts with aceitunas and to need social aid even for study, oh yeah.
España está en la mierda, y Andalucía ni te cuento. Un desempleo juvenil del 50% es un auténtico drama social, por mucho que lo hayamos asumido como normal. A partir de ahí, que cada uno se engañe como quiera, pero para mi felicidad y CALIDAD DE VIDA es lo que hay en Finlandia, donde apenas nadie tiene problemas para llegar a fin de mes o irse de vacaciones en verano a donde les salga de la p...
It's common knowledge that the south is poor because of underinvestment from absentee landlords who didn't give a shit about the people. In fact they despised the poor. The landlords could remain very rich at the expense of the poor in a system that remained medieval until the 1960's. We shouldn't forget that there much of the north was in extreme poverty too. Galicians were amongst the highest quantity of emigrants in Spain. Plenty of poverty in the north. Read Bunuel's brilliant autobiography to understand how the region of Aragon during his childhood had seen no change since the middle ages.
Toledo is the border for me. Once you go south of that it feels like a different country. I love this channel and this isn't a bad effort to explain the disparity of wealth but it's so much more complicated. Any mention of Islamic Spain, whilst interesting, is pointless in this context as it really is ancient history. The comparative poverty of Andalucía and Extremadura cannot be explained by events 500 years ago. We're talking about a 500 year problem. The south remained poor because the landowning class hated the poor and treated them as animals to further their wealth. The peasants and any opposition to this way of life were punished in ways that would be considered war crimes today during the Civil War. After the war they were starved into submission, hence the massive amount of internal migration to the north.
I have family in the north and was married in Bilbao but I have a home 2 km from the coast east of Malaga in the south. Two very different worlds. One is mainland Europe and the other is Mediterranean. The north has industry and a recognisable EU kind of way of life. The south, despite its poverty, is life and generates life. It's why the people of the north flock to the south. In my experience I have to say that the people of the south are happier than the people of the north.
Quality comment here.
I love informative comments like this. Always great to get an insider perspective.
If people are happier in the southern half, what keeps you from traveling south of Toledo? I'm sure the festivals and holidays there are fun
Sounds like you have a place somewhere behind Pedregalejo. I lived there for a year 24 years ago. I'd love to be able to do it again. I agree with all you points by the way.
He explained how the different social structures between the north and south led to the south's poverty. That emerged during the Reconquista. The south's horrible social structure where a few aristocrats owned all of the land was also transferred to the western hemisphere from Mexico and Cuba all the way south to Argentina. The Portuguese did the same thing in Brazil too.
South of Spain is not poor at all. We should forget about stupid statistics and GDPs that tell nothing at all.
richness by culture: judaism > confucianism > protestantism > catholicism > eastern orthodoxism > islamism
Protestantism....they were starving to death until early last century in Northern Europe. And where are the beautiful and monumental cities of Southern Europe there with all their culture and history. Nowere to be seen. Children were working in coal mines in Great Britain until not so long ago. By the way, the richest area of Central Europe as Belgium, Germany and Austria were Catholics too.
If you really think this can all be simplified down to a snarky RUclips comment, you’re not really worth arguing with
Facts
I’d say Catholicism is above them all, since they’re those who accomplished the most.
I read it was initially absentee landlords. The north of England housed the mills and the coal mines and those who worked in them. As soon as they could the owners moved south. Closer to London and where the weather was better. The land richer. It still suffers.
so north of england welcomes climate warming. stick it to the southerners :D
Northern Spain is "very cohesive"? Someone needs to explain that to the Catalans and the Basques, not to mention the Portuguese and the Galicians!
It was a nice history lesson but most of this, especially everything from before the industrial revolution, has no effect on the economy today. South is hotter and more arid so there's a lower capacity for population growth. It's also got more retirées, that alone explains a huge part of the difference. The rest is likely down to regulation/governance of regional governments.
There seems to be much variation in that scatter plot. Perhaps would be good to add an R^2 value and the assoiated P value as well as the slope. As presented I don't find the data convincing.
Spain would have a poor country without Catalonia and Basque Country. No wonder the fascist Spanish government never allowed Basque and Catalonia to run their own independent nations. Spain must be dissolved !
Spain is not a poor country. Best health care in the world and highest standard of living with 10s of 1000s leaving the United States for a better life.
6:23 there seem to be an error in the description of the infographic
What about Southern Italy? Greece? Georgia? Portugal? It looks like warm sea climate somehow makes ppls over relaxed.
Better weather = more time to spend outside. It's no conspiracy why the Northern European countries perform better economically
It's simply because southern Italy is much further from commercial routes in Europe. In fact it was very rich when the Mediterranean was the centre of the world. Overall though southern Italy is a much more stress free society compared to northern Europe, as shown by having one of the lowest amount of m*rders and r*pes in Europe, and one of the highest life expectancy
@@Bolognabeef As you may or may not know.. Southern Italy is a very close-knit community, which means everyone knows everyone else. People know their police officers, which means that further harm may come to you if you say anything against them. This is why the mafia has also been able to operate without any scrutiny there. So yes, the number of REPORTED crimes may be down, but I wouldn't say that they're much safer than in the north.
@@rmmvw Israel: Hold my Galil
That might as well be the story of Brazil. Southern states have GDPs comparable to European countries, while northern states can be compared to southern African countries. The reasons were pretty much the same.
Almost every economic problem is caused by wealth inequality or concentration of power in the hands of power. Surprisingly it's like we never learn from history
Spain is one of the best countries in the World.
If i were to choose one word, it would be "complacency".
What you describe to have happened in the Spanish South is very similar to what the tech barons and billionaires do these days. So, is a dystopian future inevitable?
Southern Spain feels wealthy compared to Portugal.
It's a normal thing in practically every country in the world
the economic division south north or east west
Only very small countries do not suffer from divisions
It's the same in Italy, in France, in Belgium, in England and Germany, on the contrary, the southern part is richer than the northern part
in Russia the western part is richer than the eastern part, while in China the eastern part is richer than the western part
it is normal that where there is more opportunity for trade, along the border areas or where there is a lot of water, societies and large urban centers develop which over time become more and more numerous and will end up concentrating wealth there
I would think that proximity to the rest of Europe also matters.
That's what I think and not just with Spain, we also see the same thing with the UK, Italy, Germany and other countries, the regions in those countries that are closer to other rich regions in Europe, seem to do far better economically.
Considering this seems to happen in a lot of countries and not just in Europe, it can't be by chance, and it makes sense, more trade, business and growth is usually going to happen in regions that are closer to other rich regions.
Because they waste all their money on espadrilles and cigarillos. And possibly armadillos too
It doesn’t have skyrocketing unemployment, it has actually been decreasing. Investment has also increased…
You should also make a video about why southern Italy is so poor
Very similar explanation. In fact, southern Italy was latifundist and touristic with slavery economy since the roman era, when the north was already very "industrial".
The diference between south and north ,its small ,compare countries in third world tonmorr developed ,its exagerated to call por south Spain ,you have no idea
Proximity to richer (France) and poorer region (Morocco). This is seen all over the world, rich neighbors make you rich, poor neighbors make you poor.
Coal was in the north.
Why this region is so poor? Have you ever tried to get something done in southern Spain? Culture is your answer 🙂
South is a treasure trove and rich in culture
As usually in the north/south question, the answer is water.
Plenty water in the North of England where it is considered to be the poor region compared to the rich south.
I live in southern Andalusia and we have a water festival each year to celebrate its abundance.
Also my local town is ( in Arabic ) known as the land of springs.
No shortage of water here.
is there a lack of natural resources in southern spain? like coal or iron ore. a lot of industry tended to develop where these resources were located.
¿Un inglés hablando de España? ¿De qué me suena, a qué huele?
No part of the world that has ever been predominately Muslim is wealthy today, unless it has lots of oil. The same with Sicily. Spare me your complex rationalization meant to avoid the non-PC truth.
And there are two main reasons for that:
One, Muslim states like the Ottoman Empire got very rich through control over vital trade routes, but the discovery of the Americas caused their fortunes to shift dramatically. Their positions were nowhere near as valuable as they once were, because the Atlantic became a whole lot more important than the Mediterranean for global trade, sending them into decline. We know it had nothing to do with religion because the same thing happened to Christian Mediterranean trade hubs like Venice. And
Two, decades of colonial exploitation and interference tend to kneecap a country's economic future. It's hard to get rich when global superpowers keep destabilising your politics and pushing unfair trade agreements on you.
Monke brain speaks correlation=causation yet again
Thank you ever so. Your excellent videos provide a clear and objective overview.
Your gestures are precise on the intent.
Your accent is light therefore comprehention is great!
Keep it up. You are a gift to intelligence!
If you don’t know about Spanish history and politics you better keep your mouth shut instead of misleading people with false assumptions. In any case concentrating wealth is common in many cases. For example the UK - poor North and rich South-, France - rich Paris poor rest of the country-, etc. An exception is Germany due to a disruptive war. On the other hand Spain has not gone through a communist period but a socialist period with similar consequences mainly due to high taxes and blaming entrepreneurs for all the bad things, similar to Italy or Greece politics. Catalonia is becoming poor in any case as capital is getting away from local politics.
Armancio Ortega Zara founder and billionaire is also from the north in Acarunya
I guess the situation is a bit similar to Northern and Southern Italy. Madrid is just at the border it seems.
I think you got lost in the weeds and overlooked the obvious - the CAPITAL city ie the centre of trade where all the capital is located moved to the north.
Bad video. Germany, Italy, France check all the boxes you mentioned as reasons.
The reason northern Spain has more industry and is richer is because it's closer to other centers of industry like France, Italy, Britain so trade is shorter and easier.
'on top of that, during Franko's rule, people were leaving inland Spain to settle on the coast which now contains over 90% of all of Spain's inhabitants with the exception of Madrid.
Very interesting
Its warmer
Gibraltar is even warmer and it's two times well here than the wealthiest parts of spain per person
because its the UK@@reggie69.
The árabs thrived yet the whites couldn’t. Interesting
@dreadhead5719 while it's true, Gibraltar manages itself completely independently. The only thing the UK controls in Gibraltar is literally the military, so it might as well be considered independent,
the UK economy shouldn't even be compared to Gibraltar, though
, as Gibraltar is also two times Richer than the UK,
I'm only saying it because people are saying such simpleton stuff like because it's warmer and rubbish that can be easily debunked by just using your brain why is Southern England so much wealthier than everywhere above it in the UK when the north is colder
I was actually going to say Singapore, but I remembered Gibraltar is literally under Spain.
@@reggie69. Gibraltar is tax haven.
I think Spain should try to reduce unemployed Andalusian youth professionals by encouraging them to immigrate to Latin America and the Philippines and become entrepreneurs.
Is that really a solution? Isn't there large scale immigration from many of those countries because they are economic basket cases / their educated youth are leaving because of lack of opportunities in their own countries? The question is why don't more educated Spanish unemployed find jobs elsewhere in the EU? Isn't that the purpose of free movement of labour within the EU? Or why doesn't the Spanish government reform the structural problems in Spain that makes employers reluctant to hire someone long term?
I would say that regions in the north being better connected to Europe and major ports that where connected to the Americas is also a strong factor. So great part of the economic power of the north is tied to the fall of the Arabic world’s economic power. Other factors like natural resources being concentrated in parts like the bask country also has helped the industrialization of the region. The mixture of natural resources like mines with a strong port has helped the bask region and Catalunya being connected with France has always had foreign influence from other meditaran countries.
VisualEconomik has a 100% mispronunciation rate for Spanish names.
Yep completely
The north is close to Europe which is industrial and rich, the south is front of África.
Opening comment Spains economy is in bad shape. What planet is this guy on! Spain economy Is growing more than any other western European economy!
Its the same in italy and uk. South vs North
In the UK, the roles are reversed.
No Iam Spanish and this video is rancid anachronic and obsolete in 2024 the diferencies no is Big is ridiculuous the South no is hell lol in Italy the diference is big
Also regarding population density... What's portrayed here is not quite accurate. Lands between Madrid and the coast have a really low population density. Population is concentrated in Madrid and then in the coasts. Also, you're not considering that in the last half of the XIXth century Spain lost most of its colonies (Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, etc.) This also had a big impact in the south which was largely benefited by trade with the American territories.
Additionally, decision of developing industries in the north and neglecting it in the south was largely political and sponsored by Fascist dictatorship during XXth century.
Man, you needed to have been in Spain in 67 teaching English & spreading the word for Democracy. Spain today is a paradise by comparison.
Who do you think you are? St James?
industry vs agriculture
This is very timely, I'm going to Andalusia and Extremadura this year. I hear it's supposed to be quite nice, however, Granada and Caceres in particular.
Northern Cáceres is a hidden treasure off the more beaten paths (at least by foreign tourists). Granada is amazing too. Sevilla, Córdoba, Cádiz... too much to see in a trip.
This also explains Latin America.
Not really. Socialism explains Latin America.
@@marcv2648 No it doesn't. This is the kind of answer from someone who doesn't read history. Socialism hardly had a real influence in the economic history of Latin America up to the 21st century.
Yup Spaniards coming here was a mistake
I would rather live in Sevilla than in Barcelona and Madrid any day
Seems like the south has more of a Mediterranean culture whereas the north has more of a Northern European culture? Southern Italy and Greece similarly don’t have great economies! Also interesting that southern Spain was where so many South Americans decamped from and brought along their culture to the new world, the estancia system setup in the new world led to outrageous inequality, where I live there were only two families that owned the land where 5 million people now live on!
Much FEWER, not much LESS. Bloody hell
Every country has a poorer zone where hard working real products are made, such as food.
Summary: Southern Spain poor coz no rain and far away from majority of Europe. (Haven't even watched the video yet)
In just one sentence you explained it better than this guy in 20 minutes of video nonsense
Southern Spain is a better place to live than most of the rest of Europe 😂😂😂
Heat is no friend of economic development. Just compare northern and southern Italy, southern and northern Brazil, southern South America in general vs tropical Latin America, in Asia it’s a bit mixed but still Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia versus Japan, South Korea and China.
Not True. Southern China and Southern India is actually richer than the North. Southern Japan and Korea follow same trend. Same goes for Vietnam.
Southern Germany is richer than Northern Germany, southern England is richer than Northern England. Singapore, the Emirates are rich, Siberia is poor. Please don't study on memes
@@marcoac-sx6lq
Perhaps not the best examples.
Heat can absolutely make a difference but so can extreme cold. It's difficult to operate efficiently in both.
Access to water is important for both agriculture and industry.
Germany, England, Singapore and Emirates are all relatively homogenous when it comes to their internal climates so it's not a factor within their own boarders.
The climate is absolutely not the only factor but it can be an important one.
There's for an example a reason the UAE and Saudi Arabia were extremely sparsely populated before the oil came into the picture.
It has enabled them to make their countries more hospitable for larger populations in regards of cooling, desalination, import of food/goods and of course work opportunities.
UAE went from a population of just 75 000 in 1950 to the current 9,5 million (population increase of 12 556 %). Absolutely bonkers. =P
Saudi Arabia went from 3 million to 37,5 million in the same time period (population increase of 1150 %).
This might all come to an end the day the oil dries up which of course both nations are worried about.
I’m heavily considering moving to Spain, so I’m trying to find different viewpoints on Spain that are not just the “oh my God it’s picturesque and perfect with free healthcare!”
But this video seems to make a lot of huge leaps in logic
A lot has happened between the middle ages and now so constantly referring back to it seems a little weird
I’m considering moving to the cheaper places like Seville - I guess I’ll just have to find out for myself
Can’t be as bad as Ohio, I’ll tell you that much right now.
Sevilla is amazing, just not in the Summer where it's almost hell on Earth.
It is really difficult to make the decision to move to a country as locals exaggerate and tourists are biased by their holidays' experience. I am a Spaniard and I know many here like to say "we have the best food, the best weather, the best social life, the best health system, the best quality of life...". Actually, it all depends on your own taste and likings. Sure, Spain is a very diverse country, so somewhere there is a balance. I have lived abroad and worked and visited many countries and many places are nice. Overall, I have to admit Spain is a good place to live if you have a good income, not because it is expensive but because you get really good value for it. Beware, Spain is not a good place to find a job or to deal with red tape, but if your income comes from abroad or you are a retiree it is a good choice. Where exactly in Spain? I prefer the center as I like to move around and explore our diverse country; I don't need to live by the sea and suffer overcrowded beaches in summer, I prefer the emptiness and prices of the interior, but each person is different. Better, seek advice, ask some people from your country who live here.
Free education too much to handle your own i was thinking when i was lost my car i should make garbage collecting bags then it could be easily collected and i could make some money 💰 seems no one intrested in so my determination died out
Europeans Trying to blame everything on islam and communism like they didnt do anything
At 1:40, it's pronounced more like Al-mah-REE-ah, not Al-MAIR-ee-ah
The more south in Europe you go the poorer it gets 🫤
That is wrong, Greece is richer than most of the other countries in the Balkans. Spain is richer than most of the former Eastern bloc countries.
But, that was a nice theory.
no it just coinciden
East Russia is poor
East Turkey is poor
And in Spain ITS south
In my country eastern part is so poor i live in Indonesia
All I know is that across the sea, it gets even worse 😂
More amixture with North Africans in the south
the uk:
The north is close to France , the South is close to Morocco.
And your point is?
Likely, economic trade.
Is Morocco or France more highly developed economically?
And southern mexico, southern USA.
Used to be that way in the Southern US. The US South has a larger economy than US North now. South Carolina has the second highest industrialization of any state after Indiana. Northern and Southern stats for the US have had a huge reversal over the past 50 years.
Please brush up on your pronunciation.
Ps I live in southern Andalusia just below Granada.
I can assure this region is not poor.
“ The question is”
I live in the south! I love it here. Its beautiful!
You lives in South suposse the very exagerated of video title in past décades or a century ago is some possibly today absolutly no is this exagerated terms the quality of Life is close similar for the money redistribution in Spanish System
Because of southern admixture
Hola España 🇪🇸
The south of Spain has been screwed over by the government in Madrid for nearly ninety years. That's why it's so poor. That's also why there is so much undeclared wealth in Andalusia.