HISTORECO: Historical Spanish transition database on climate, geography, and economics of the 20th-21st Century

HISTORECO is a comprehensive database that includes more than 45 geographic, climatic, hydrological, demographic, and economic variables (64 columns of data apart from the 7 first of identification of the municipality in "Historeco.csv") spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, covering all 8,122 municipalities in Spain each of which has one value per decade. It is a unique dataset that integrates data from various sources, facilitating the analysis of long-term temporal and spatial trends across multiple disciplines such as climate, geography, and socio-economic development.

The dataset combines information from twenty sources (databases/articles), harmonizing and downscaling them to the municipal level using GIS and programming tools (mainly QGIS, R, and Python). This is the most extensive dataset of its kind in terms of temporal depth and spatial granularity available for Spain.

This project has been developed thanks to funding from the Ramón Areces Foundation, without which it would not have been possible.