What is the current population of Spain?

The main ethnic group in Spain is the Castilians, who account for more than 70% of the total population. Catalans, Galicians and Basques are the three most important of Spain's 20 ethnic minorities.

Catalan people mainly live in northeastern Spain, and Barcelona is an important town in Catalonia. A small number of Catalans live in the Aragon region, and there are about 600,000 people in Germany, Italy, Andorra and other countries; the Galicians live in the northwest Galicia region, and their origins are the same. The Portuguese are related to each other and are very close in culture and language. Abroad, the Galicians are mainly concentrated in Argentina, with a total population of 975,000; the Basques are distributed on the west side of the Pyrenees, along the sills. About 300,000 people live abroad in the foothills of the Tabulien Mountains and along the Bay of Biscay, many in France. Sociologists have so far been unable to find the origin of the Basque people. In all three regions, the national language is the official language along with Spanish (Castilian).

The three largest cities in Spain are Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, each with a population of more than 2 million people. In the hinterland, which accounts for about two-thirds of the country's area, the population is only one-third of the country's population, and the rest are concentrated in the industrially prosperous areas bordering the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. The coastal province of Biscay has 263 people per square kilometer, and the province of Barcelona has 284 people per square kilometer. In some industrial areas, such as Asturias, Basque Country, Catalonia, etc., there are even more than 500 people per square kilometer. In some sparsely populated areas of Teruel, Soria and La Mancha, there are only 9 people per square kilometer. In the mainland, the only place with a relatively high population density is the province of Madrid, where the capital is located, with more than 500 people per square kilometer.

The Spanish population is seriously aging. Spain has become one of the most livable countries in Europe. With the improvement of living standards, the average life expectancy of the population reached 76 years in 1980, second only to the Netherlands in Europe. Although it is a traditional Catholic country, due to the impact of modern marriage and family concepts, young people tend to get married late, not get married, and not have children. The marriage rate for men and women of marriageable age is only about 5 out of 1,000, which means that the proportion of cohabitation is huge. In the early 1980s, the number of marriages fell by 25% annually. Currently, the average woman gives birth to 2.1 children, and family size has shrunk to about three people per household, which is at a low level in Europe. However, the divorce rate in Spain is also relatively low, only 0.5 per thousand. Spain's child mortality rate is also relatively low in Europe, below one percent. A large number of overseas immigrants have also caused Spain's low population growth rate, which is what makes it different from other Western countries.

There are currently about 3.36 million Spaniards living abroad, including 2.207 million in America and 1.073 million in Europe. Continuous migration characterizes Spain's demography and is associated with its former colonial rule. After the discovery of the New World, large numbers of Spaniards flocked to Central and South America, and even parts of North America, in search of gold and adventure. By 1913, there were 220,000 Spanish American immigrants. After the war, the direction of Spanish immigration underwent a directional reversal. Before 1960, up to 85% of immigrants aimed at the Americas on the other side of the Atlantic, and later this number dropped sharply to 10%; at the same time, a large number of immigrants turned their new dreams to Europe, and the place they were most willing to go to was France, Germany and Switzerland. After the war, Spain's population moved abroad to the tune of 1.5 million. ?