880
PORTUGAL
Provinces and Districts
Area in sq. miles
Population
Per sq. mile
1890
1878
1890
Entre Minho-e-Douro : — Vianna do Castello
Braga
Porto
Tras-os-Montes :—
Villa Real
Braganza
Beira : —
Aveiro
Vizeu
Coimbra ....
Guarda
Castello Branco ....
Estremadura : —
Leiria
Santarem
Lisbon
Alemtejo : —
Portalegre
Evora
Beja
Algarve (Faro) ....
Total Continent
Islands :—
Azores
Madeira (FunehaJ) ....
Total Islands ....
Grand total ....
1
867
1,058
882
201,390 319,464 461,881
207,366 338,308 546,262
239-3 319-8 617-1
2,807
982,735
1,091,936
353-4
1,718 2,575
224,628 168,651
237,302 179,678
138-3 69-6
4,293
393,279
416,980
97 1
1,124 1,920 1,500 2,146 2,. 558
257,049 371,571
292,037 228,494 173,983
287,437 391,015 316,624 250,154 205,211
255-8 202-5 211-1 116-5 80-3
156-8
9,248
1,323,134
1,450,441
1,343
2,651
2,882
192,982
2-J0,881 498,059
217,278 2.54,844 611,168
161-9
96-0
2-24-8
6,876
911,922
1,083,290
157-5
2,484 2,7.38 4,209
101,126 106,858 142,119
112,834
118,408 157,571
45-3 43-2 37-5
9,431
350,103
388,813 228,635
41-2
1,873
199,142
1220
34,528
4,160,315
4,660,095
135-7
1,005 505
259,800 130,584
255,594 134,040
254-3 426-0
1,510
390,384
389,634 5,049,729
314-9
36,038
4,550,699
141-9
In 1890 the population consisted of 2,430,339 males and 2,619,390 females, or 108 females to every hundred males. In the 14 years, 1864 to 1878, the poinilation increased by 362,289, or at the yearly rate of '62 per cent, of the population in 1864 ; in the 12 years 11 months, 1878 to 1890, the increase was 499,030, or at the yearly rate of -85 per cent, of the population in 1878. In 1878 the continental urhan population numbered 1,174,876 or 28'2 percent, while the rural numliered 2,985,439 or 7r8 per cent., the island urban and rural population being respectively 38-2 and 61-8 per cent. In 1890 the continental urban population was 1,445,032 or 31 '0 per cent, and the rural 3,215,063 or 69 per cent, the island urban and rural being respectively 37 "4 and 02-6 per cent. Thus, on the continent the urban popu°
