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 AKEA AND POPULATION

ion:

MOVUMKWT OF POPCUATIOK.

Births, deaths, and mairiages : —

Year Marriages

1917' 96,619 1918- 107,226 1919 1 314,113

Birtlus Living

Illegiti-

Legitimate mate a:, 1 Total

65S.274 32,933 691,207

602,778 31,611 634,389

719,733 34,047 754,685

Stillborn

DmUi

exclusive Suxplu* r»l of the Births

Stillborn

29,820, 682,311 8,896 31,885 1,143.417-509,058 36,140 677,040 77,645

1 For 8.11 - toe S.07

i For 8.90

ties out of a total < nes out of a total of nes out of a total t>:

Emigrant*.— Total number in 1910, 243,417, of whom 144,524 went to other European countries or those bordering on the Mediterranean, and 98,893 to countries overseas.

The number of Italians who returned to Italy was : — In 1919, 89,081 (of whom 9,025 were from the United States).

Principal To \ The numbers of inhabitants at the different centres do not in Italian statistics afford a sufficient basis for distinguishing between the urban and rural population. In Northern Italy the population is scattered over the country and there are few centres. In Southern Italy and in the islands the country people live in the towns, coining and going to cultivate their own plots of land ; consequently there are many populous centres where, if numbers alone •usidered, the population would be regarded as urban, though it is, in truth, almost exclusively rural. The following statement gives the classifica- tion of communes according to residant population on December 31, 1918, on the basis of the 1911 eensu* :

Commune* with population i

•,001 to 100,000. From 30,001 to 50,' 00. From 20,001 to 30,000. From 15,001 to 20,000. Others

100,000

Number

Population

Per 1,000

13

3.013,958

1.935,540

as-;

- S49

54 4

65-4

1.650,095

46-0

8,056

6713

Total

35.S45.048

1,000-0

The estimated communal population of the capitals of provinces was follows on January 1, 1915 : —

Communes

Popula- i

Communes Venezia

Popula- tion

168,088

Commune*

Popala-

Napoli. Milano

(507,917

Lucca.

79,110

663,059 •

Messina

150,000

' Alessandria

78,159

Rorna

590,960

Livorno

108,586

Ravenna

74,161

Torino.

451.094

Bari

109,218

Reggio Emilia

75,349

Palermo

345,891

Padova.

105,135

■na

76.584

(teiiova

300, 199

Ferrara

Perugia.

7'.V227

Firenzp

Brescia

89,622

Pisa

67,289

Catania

217,389 '

Verona

86.44S

Ancona.

Bologaa

189,770 !

Foggia.

70, 2 1 3

Cagliori.

61,175