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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, I 164 1 14T I 133i
 * 245,

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