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