30% of managers are over 65 years old

Euskadi and Navarra currently have that almost 25,000 people at work in the primary sector (11,483 in the BAC and 12,595 in Navarra). A fact that, in the case of Euskadi, a 15% loss of employment compared to 2009. In Navarra, on the other hand, there has been an increase 2% the number of people who worked in the primary sector in the same period.

The primary sector represents the 1.2% of employment in the Basque Countryand the 4% of employment Navarra. The BAC is therefore among the autonomous communities in which primary employment has the least weight, below Catalonia (1.4%) and only above the Balearic Islands (0.9%) and the Community of Madrid (0.1%).

The consequences of aging appear to be of crucial importance in this area. Overall, in Euskadi, one in ten working people is over 60 years old, slightly older than Navarre (9%) and the state average (8.8%). But the impact of growing older is great more visible in the primary sector: Him fifteen% of those working in the primary sector, both in Euskadi and Navarre They are over 60 years old (in the state the rate is 13.4%). Moreover, one in three managers of these companies is over 65 years old.

In Euskadi there are only two older sectors, that of the Social services and that of Domestic employment.

On the other hand, the 48.4% of employment in the primary sector in the BAC It’s on yourself an even greater fact if we look only at agriculture and livestock farming.

Furthermore, EITB Data highlights the little female presence in primary service as an employee: in Euskadi this is 13.6%, the lowest record in the entire state. However, among primary self-employed persons the ratio stands at 38.1%, one of the best figures in the state.