The dissatisfaction of the Spaniards with their lives soars in the last decade

The dissatisfaction of the Spaniards with their lives has worsened triple the average of the OECD between 2005 and 2015, in a context of clear worsening of the labor situation due to the crisis and Although the country is among the five that have made the most progress in indicators of quality of life.

Paris, Nov 15 (EFE) .- The dissatisfaction of the Spaniards with their lives has worsened triple the average of the OECD between 2005 and 2015, in a context of clear worsening of the situation labor crisis, and despite the fact that the country is among the five that have made the most progress in indicators of quality of life.

In its biennial report on indicators on well-being published today, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) explains that in 2015 -the latest available data- Spaniards give their lives a score of 6.4 out of 10, when the group of member countries is 6.5.

This represents a significant drop compared to ten years earlier, when Spain was clearly above the average (7.1 compared to 6,7).

If you look for the reasons for this setback in other indicators of well-being, the most obvious are in the world of work, and to illustrate it the best is insecurity in employment (measured in the expected drop in income from continuing to be unemployed or losing their job).

After rebounding in the first part of the crisis, it reached its peak in 2012 and, although it has decreased since then, it continues to triple the level registered in 2007.

The same is true for long-term unemployment (more than 12 months), which has skyrocketed since then. same year until 2013, when it reached a ceiling of 13%, compared to an average of 2.8% in the OECD.

The breakdown of the labor market has affected in particular the youngest, whose rate of occupation is three times lower than the middle-aged population, a difference much higher than in the average of the other States of the organization.

Spain has been from the most The crisis in the country with the highest rate of unemployment only behind Greece, and this has weighed on the fact that adjusted net household income has fallen by 6% between 2005 and 2015, one of the greater decreases in the developed world, where in global terms it increased by 8% in that period.

And despite this, although it may seem a contradiction, the real income of the workers (those who had not lost their jobs) increased by 7% in those ten years.

One effect of this loss of purchasing power is that the percentage of income that has to be allocate to cover household expenses have risen from 18.2% to 21.8%, one of the biggest promotions.

As in unemployment, Spain appears in the caboose in the percentage of low school and adults with low levels of work skills, in both cases antepenúltimos.

Spaniards are less satisfied with the functioning of their democracy than the average of European countries of the OECD, in particular with the policies of reduction of inequalities (they put a score of 3 out of 10) or with the existence of direct participation mechanisms municipal scale (4).

Only 23% of the population feels that they can influence what the government does, which means 10 points less than in the whole of the "country club". developed. "

And when asked if corruption is widespread in the government, 82% answered affirmatively, compared to 56% in the OECD.

Along with these signs of a clear deterioration in the perception of their lives, the authors of the report also report that Spain is the fifth country, behind Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Poland, where more indicators of quality of life have improved between 2005 and 2015.

For example, life expectancy, which has risen by about three years during that period to 83 years, which places Spain in second position, only behind Japan (83.9).

It also appears in the lead in terms of personal security, with a reduction in those ten years of the homicide rate or an increase in the proportion of people who say they feel safe walking alone at night (from 65% to 83%).