1284
SPAIN
For the population of each of the provinces according to the 1910 Census see Statesman's Year-Book, 1914, p. 1300.
The population of Ceuta (23,907) is included in that of Cadiz. Besides Ceuta, Spain has, on the African Coast, the Alhucema isles (pop. 406), the Chafarinas (736), Melilla (42,592), Pefion de la Gomera (400), Rio de Oro (495), and Nador (2,740). The North African possessions are no longer used as convict stations, the centuries old ' Presidios' having been suppressed by a recent Decree and the prisoners brought back to the Peninsula. The Basques in the North, numbering some 400,000, differ in race and language from the rest of Spain ; there are 50,000 gipsies, and a small number of Jews.
The following were the estimated populations of the principal towns on December 31, 1918, viz. :—
Town
Pop.
Madrid . Barcelona Valencia . Sevilla . Malaga . Murcia . Zaragoza . Cartagena 1 Bilbao Granada . Valladolid Lorca 1 .
652.
618, | 245, I 164 1 14T I 133i
124.
102, 99,
82.
7o;
70,
Town
Pop.
Palma 1 .
Cadiz
C6rdoba.
Santander
S. Cruz (Canaries).
Las Pal mas .
Jerez i .
Alicante.
Gijon 1 .
Oviedo .
San Sebastian
Almeria
67,544 65,302 72,871 72,765
82,219 l»9,270 62.62S 57,505 55,248 55,191
47,800
Town
Corufla . Linares J Badajoz . Alcoy i . Vitoria . Castellon Burgos . Salamanca Pamplona Jaen Huelva .
Pop.
60,178 37,039 37.5S1 33,896 34,079 32,744 32,374 38,082 80,886 30,957 34,753
i Population Census, 1910. The movement of population for 3 years was as follows : —
Years
Marriages
Births
Deaths
Surplus of births
1917 1918
1919
142,065 141,294
166,716
602,102 612,555
585,352
465,819 695,619
482,030
136,283
- 83,064
(surplus of deaths)
103,322
Emigration figures for 4
years as follows : —
Year
Male
Feinali',
Total 50,359
Tear
Male
Female
Total
1916
1916
36,420 18,959
13,939 9,740
1917 1918
83,976 86,877
9,076
9, ,"77
48,061
86,254
Emigration from Spain is chiefly to Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay, and Mexico.
Religion.
The national Church of Spain is the Roman Catholic, and the whole popu- lation of the kingdom adhere to that fait h, except about 80,000, Protestants (about 7,000), Jews (about 4,000), Rationalists, etc. Within the Peninsula. apart from Portugal, there are 9 metropolitan sees ami 47 suffragan sees, the chief being Toledo. The Constitution requires the nation to support the clergy and the buildings, &c, of the Church, and for this purpose the State expends annually about 41,000,000 pesetas. Efforts are being made for a reduction of
