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I saw a figure in a historical atlas that said roughly 1.5 million people emigrated from Spain between 1492 and WWII. Recent immigrants (post WWII) are closer to 600K.
It seems like a small number, but it has been over 500 years. Anyone have a better number or a better reference? I have been unable to google any estimate since I get floods of estimates of number of Euoropean or mestizo's today.
I saw a figure in a historical atlas that said roughly 1.5 million people emigrated from Spain between 1492 and WWII. Recent immigrants (post WWII) are closer to 600K.
It seems like a small number, but it has been over 500 years. Anyone have a better number or a better reference? I have been unable to google any estimate since I get floods of estimates of number of Euoropean or mestizo's today.
Just to be clear, are you talking about Spanish immigration to the United States or Spanish immigration to Latin American countries?
I saw a figure in a historical atlas that said roughly 1.5 million people emigrated from Spain between 1492 and WWII. Recent immigrants (post WWII) are closer to 600K.
It seems like a small number, but it has been over 500 years. Anyone have a better number or a better reference? I have been unable to google any estimate since I get floods of estimates of number of Euoropean or mestizo's today.
Do you have any sources? I'll look for sources, but from what I remember Spanish immigration is much more than 1.5 million in the Western Hemisphere.
Just to be clear, are you talking about Spanish immigration to the United States or Spanish immigration to Latin American countries?
Spanish immigration to all of the Americas (North and South).
The statement below that I read in a report is discouraging.
Data on gross migration flows in Spain are neither abundant nor extending long into the past. Historically, information on migration flows was limited to statistics drawn from registers of passengers that leave the country by ship and airplane, or from information of bilateral official programs of organized emigration to Europe. This is the reason why most of the studies on
Spanish emigration used information from destination countries. .
We have fairly good estimates of the population of British North America before the first US census in 1790. Roughly a million immigrants (1607-1790) were the basis of the 4 million population. Of course there was not the large numbers of mixed population with European and native American.
AREA- IMMIGRANTS-POPULATION IN 1790
Africa 360,000 757,000
British total 425,500 2,560,000
Total 950,000 3,900,000
Immigrants from Other countries 164,500
To the Americas: From 1846 to 1932, 4.600.000 million
So in 1850 population of Latin America was 38 million and Northern Americas was 26 million (23.19 in USA).
So your number is specifically from Spain to all of the Americas. Is that correct?
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