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On the last Wednesday of August, the town of Buñol holds La Tomatina, a giant tomato fight. (source)
Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 21.6%
- people aged 65 or older
- 10.7M
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 36.1%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 25.4 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 21.6%
- women 26.8%, men 15%
- of people 65+ live in collective quarters: care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like
- 2.2%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2021; UN, 2011 census
Languages
18 languages, 9 of them endangered
- AragoneseDefinitely endangered
- ExtremaduranDefinitely endangered
- BasqueVulnerable
- CalóVulnerable
- CatalanVulnerable
- Catalan Sign LanguageVulnerable
- MirandeseVulnerable
- Spanish Sign LanguageVulnerable
- Valencian Sign LanguageVulnerable
- Asturian
- Fala
- Galician
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- Occitan
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Tarifit
- Vlax Romani
- Roquetas Pidgin Spanish
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
UNESCO intangible heritage
- Art of dry stone construction, knowledge and techniques2024
- Manual bell ringing2024
- Asturian cider culture2024
- Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock2023
- Knowledge, craft and skills of handmade glass production2023
- Timber rafting2022
- Portuguese-Galician border ICH: a safeguarding model created by Ponte...nas ondas!2022
- Falconry, a living human heritage2021
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- Wine Horses2020
- Artisanal talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala (Mexico) and ceramics of Talavera de la Reina and El Puente del Arzobispo (Spain) making process2019
- Tamboradas drum-playing rituals2018
- Valencia Fallas festivity2016
- Summer solstice fire festivals in the Pyrenees2015
- Methodology for inventorying intangible cultural heritage in biosphere reserves: the experience of Montseny2013
- Mediterranean diet2013
- Fiesta of the patios in Cordova2012
- Festivity of ‘la Mare de Déu de la Salut’ of Algemesí2011
- Revitalization of the traditional craftsmanship of lime-making in Morón de la Frontera, Seville, Andalusia2011
- Human towers2010
- Flamenco2010
- Chant of the Sybil on Majorca2010
- Centre for traditional culture – school museum of Pusol pedagogic project2009
- Whistled language of the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands), the Silbo Gomero2009
- Irrigators’ tribunals of the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the Council of Wise Men of the plain of Murcia and the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia2009
- Mystery play of Elche2008
- Patum of Berga2008
List and years: ich.unesco.org
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