Editing Galicia (Spain) (section)

==Demographics==

{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source: [[Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)|INE]]
|1900 | 1980515
|1910 | 2063589
|1920 | 2124244
|1930 | 2230281
|1940 | 2495860
|1950 | 2604200
|1960 | 2602962
|1970 | 2683674
|1981 | 2811942
|1991 | 2731669
|2001 | 2695880
|2011 | 2772928
|2021 | 2698177
}}

===Population===
[[File:Galicia densidade parroq.PNG|thumb|right|Population density]]
{{main|Galician people}}
Galicia's inhabitants are known as Galicians ({{langx|gl|galegos}}, {{langx|es|gallegos}}). For well over a century Galicia has grown more slowly than the rest of Spain, largely due to a poorer economy compared with other regions of Spain and [[emigration]] to [[Latin America]] and other parts of Spain. Sometimes, Galicia has lost population in absolute terms. In 1857, Galicia had Spain's [[population density|densest]] population and constituted 11.5% of the national population. {{As of|2007}}, only 6.1% of the Spanish population resided in the autonomous community. This is due to an exodus of Galician people since the 19th century, first to [[South America]] and later{{when|date=February 2023}} to [[Central Europe]]{{where|date=July 2020}} and the development of population centers and industry in other parts of Spain.

According to the 2006 census, Galicia has a [[fertility rate]] of 1.03 children per woman, compared to 1.38 nationally, and far below the figure of 2.1 that represents a stable populace.<ref name="hijos">{{cite web |url=http://www.galicia-hoxe.com/index_2.php?idMenu=79&idNoticia=307692 |title=As lucenses son as que menos fillos teñen en España |work=Galicia-Hoxe.com |author=EFE |author-link=EFE |access-date=14 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301214952/http://www.galicia-hoxe.com/index_2.php?idMenu=79&idNoticia=307692 |archive-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Lugo and Ourense provinces have the lowest fertility rates in Spain, 0.88 and 0.93, respectively.<ref name="hijos" />

In northern Galicia, the [[A Coruña]]-[[Ferrol, A Coruña|Ferrol]] metropolitan area has become increasingly dominant in terms of population. The population of the city of A Coruña in 1900 was 43,971. The population of the rest of the province, including the City and Naval Station of nearby Ferrol and Santiago de Compostela, was 653,556. A Coruña's growth occurred after the [[Spanish Civil War]] at the same speed as other major Galician cities, but since the revival of democracy after the death of [[Francisco Franco]], A Coruña has grown at a faster rate than all the other Galician cities.

During the mid-20th century, the population rapidly increased in [[A Coruña]], Vigo, and to a lesser degree, other major Galician cities, such as [[Ourense]], [[Pontevedra]] or [[Santiago de Compostela]] as the rural population declined after the [[Spanish Civil War]]: many villages and hamlets of the four provinces of Galicia disappeared or nearly disappeared during the same period. [[Economic development]] and mechanization of agriculture resulted in the fields being abandoned, and most of the population moved to find jobs in the main cities. The number of people working in the [[Tertiary sector of industry|tertiary]] and [[Quaternary sector of industry|quaternary sectors]] of the economy increased significantly.

Since 1999, the absolute number of births in Galicia has been increasing. In 2006, 21,392 births were registered in Galicia,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.galiciae.com/nova/11665.html?lang=es |title=Aumentan los nacimientos en Galicia, pero el saldo vegetativo sigue negativo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224040727/http://www.galiciae.com/nova/11665.html?lang=es |archive-date=24 December 2014 |work=galiciae.com |date=28 May 2005 |access-date=14 March 2019 |language=es}}</ref> 300 more than in 2005, according to the [[Instituto Galego de Estatística]]. Since 1981, the Galician [[life expectancy]] has increased by five years, thanks to a higher quality of life.<ref>{{cite news |first=Carlos |last=Punzón |url=http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/galicia/2007/10/30/0003_6273910.htm |title=La esperanza de vida se incrementó en Galicia en cinco años desde 1981 |newspaper=[[La Voz de Galicia]] |date=29 October 2007 |access-date=29 November 2008 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212185216/http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/galicia/2007/10/30/0003_6273910.htm |archive-date=12 December 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.es/jaxi/menu.do?type=pcaxis&path=/t20/p318&file=inebase&L= |work=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015231614/http://www.ine.es/jaxi/menu.do?type=pcaxis&path=%2Ft20%2Fp318&file=inebase&L= |archive-date=15 October 2015 |title=Indicadores Demográficos Básicos |access-date=14 March 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

* [[Birth rate]] (2006): 7.9 per 1,000 (all of Spain: 11.0 per 1,000)
* [[Death rate]] (2006): 10.8 per 1,000 (all of Spain: 8.4 per 1,000)
* [[Life expectancy at birth]] (2005): 80.4 years (all of Spain: 80.2 years)
** Male: 76.8 years (all of Spain: 77.0 years)
** Female: 84.0 years (all of Spain: 83.5 years)

[[Roman Catholicism]] is, by far, the largest religion in Galicia. In 2012, the proportion of [[Galicians]] that identify themselves as Roman Catholic was 82.2%.<ref name="lavanguardia.com">{{cite news |url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/vangdata/20150402/54429637154/interactivo-creencias-y-practicas-religiosas-en-espana.html |title=Interactivo: Creencias y prácticas religiosas en España |first=Ismael |last=Nafría |date=2 April 2015 |access-date=14 March 2019 |newspaper=[[La Vanguardia]] |language=es |archive-date=4 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404024037/http://www.lavanguardia.com/vangdata/20150402/54429637154/interactivo-creencias-y-practicas-religiosas-en-espana.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

As a Celtic region of Spain, Galicia has a tartan called Galicia National.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=5776 |title=Tartan Details - the Scottish Register of Tartans |access-date=11 November 2023 |archive-date=13 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613174817/https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=5776 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Urbanization===
{{See also|List of municipalities in Galicia}}
The principal cities are the four capitals [[A Coruña]], [[Pontevedra]], [[Ourense]] and [[Lugo]], [[Santiago de Compostela]] – the political capital and archiepiscopal seat – and the industrial cities [[Vigo]] and [[Ferrol, Galicia|Ferrol]].

<gallery class="center" caption="The seven Galician main cities" widths="200" heights="165">
Vista de la avenida de la Marina desde la parte de atrás de la Biblioteca Provincial de A Coruña.JPG|[[A Coruña]]
Praza Maior de Lugo, II.JPG|[[Lugo]]
Praza do Ferro (Ourense).jpg|[[Ourense]]
Pontevedra-Remodelaciones (14316250282).jpg|[[Pontevedra]]
Grande place devant la cathédrale.jpg|[[Santiago de Compostela]]
Vigo dende o monte do castro.jpg|[[Vigo]]
View of Ferrol Port.jpg|[[Ferrol, Spain|Ferrol]]
</gallery>

The largest conurbations are:
* Pontevedra-Vigo 660,000
* A Coruña-Ferrol 640,000

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
|+List of municipalities in Galicia by population
|-
!rowspan=13 width:100|
! style="text-align:center;"|
! style="text-align:center;"|Municipality
! style="text-align:center;"|Province
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Population (2021)
! style="text-align:center;"|
! style="text-align:center;"|Municipality
! style="text-align:center;"|Province
! style="text-align:center;"|Population (2021)
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''1'''||align=left|'''[[Vigo]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|292,374|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''13'''||align=left|'''[[Carballo]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|31,414
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''2'''||align=left|'''[[A Coruña]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|244,700|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''14'''||align=left|'''[[Culleredo]]'''||[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|30,758
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''3'''||align=left|'''[[Ourense]]'''||align=center|[[Ourense (province)|Ourense]]||align=center|103,756|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''15'''||align=left|'''[[Redondela]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|29,192
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''4'''||align=left|'''[[Lugo]]'''||align=center|[[Lugo (province)|Lugo]]||align=center|97,211|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''16'''||align=left|'''[[Santa Uxía de Ribeira|Ribeira]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|26,839
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''5'''||align=left|'''[[Santiago de Compostela]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|98,179|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''17'''||align=left|'''[[Cangas de Morrazo|Cangas]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|26,708
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''6'''||align=left|'''[[Pontevedra]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|82,828|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''18'''||align=left|'''[[Cambre]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|24,616
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''7'''||align=left|'''[[Ferrol, Galicia|Ferrol]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|64,158|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''19'''||align=left|'''[[Marín, Pontevedra|Marín]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|24,248
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''8'''||align=left|'''[[Narón]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|38,913|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''20'''||align=left|'''[[Ponteareas]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|22,942
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''9'''||align=left|'''[[Vilagarcía de Arousa]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|37,545|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''21'''||align=left|'''[[A Estrada]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|20,261
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''10'''||align=left|'''[[Oleiros, Galicia|Oleiros]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|37,271|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''22'''||align=left|'''[[Lalín]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|20,199
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''11'''||align=left|'''[[Arteixo]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|33,076|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''23'''||align=left|'''[[O Porriño]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|20,212
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|'''12'''||align=left|'''[[Ames, A Coruña|Ames]]'''||align=center|[[A Coruña (province)|A Coruña]]||align=center|32,095|| &nbsp; || style="text-align:center;"|'''24'''||align=left|'''[[Moaña]]'''||align=center|[[Pontevedra (province)|Pontevedra]]||align=center|19,496
|}
{{Clear}}

===Migration===
Like many rural areas of Western Europe, Galicia's history has been defined by mass emigration. Significant internal migration took place from Galicia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the industrialized Spanish cities of [[Barcelona]], [[Bilbao]], [[Zaragoza]] and [[Madrid]]. Other Galicians emigrated to [[Latin America]] – [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]], [[Venezuela]], [[Mexico]], [[Brazil]] and [[Cuba]] in particular.

The two cities with the greatest number of people of Galician descent outside Galicia are [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, and nearby [[Montevideo]], Uruguay. Immigration from Galicia was so significant in these areas that Argentines and Uruguayans now commonly refer to all Spaniards as ''gallegos'' (Galicians).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=gallego |title=Gallegos |work=[[Real Academia Espanola]] |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226112019/http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=gallego |archive-date=26 December 2007 |access-date=14 March 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the [[Spain under Francisco Franco|Franco]] years, there was a new wave of emigration out of Galicia to other European countries, most notably to [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]], and the [[United Kingdom]]. Many of these immigrant or expatriate communities have their groups or clubs, which they formed in the first decades of settling in a new place. The [[Galician diaspora]] is so widespread that websites such as [[Fillos de Galicia]] have been created in the 21st century to organize and form a network of ethnic Galicians throughout the world.

After this, a third wave was a Spanish internal emigration to heavier industrialised areas of Spain, like the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]] or [[Catalonia]].

The proportion of foreign-born people in Galicia is only 2.9 percent compared to the national figure of 10 percent; among the autonomous communities, only [[Extremadura]] has a lower percentage of immigrants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.es/jaxi/menu.do?type=pcaxis&path=/t20/e245&file=inebase&L= |work=[[Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)|Instituto Nacional de Estadística]] |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112044915/http://www.ine.es/jaxi/menu.do?type=pcaxis&path=%2Ft20%2Fe245&file=inebase&L= |archive-date=12 January 2008 |title=Explotación estadística del Padrón |access-date=21 February 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> Of the foreign nationals resident in Galicia, 17.93 percent are the ethnically related [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], 10.93 percent are [[Colombian people|Colombian]] and 8.74 percent [[Brazilian people|Brazilian]].<ref name="DossierGalicia" />

===Language===
{{Main|Galician language}}
[[File:ForoBoBurgo.jpg|thumb|upright|One of the oldest legal documents written in Galician, the ''Foro do bo burgo do Castro Caldelas'']]

Galicia has two official languages: Galician (Galician: ''galego'') and Spanish (also known in Spain as ''Castellano'', i.e. ''"Castilian"''), both of them [[Romance languages]]. The former (Galician) originated regionally; the latter (Castilian) was associated with [[County of Castile|Castile]]. Galician is recognized in the Statute of Autonomy of Galicia as the ''lingua propia'' ("own language") of Galicia.

Galician and Portuguese share a common medieval phase known as [[Galician-Portuguese]].<ref>{{citation |last=Fernández Rei |first=Francisco |title=Dialectoloxía da lingua galega |year=2003 |publisher=Edicións Xerais de Galicia |location=Vigo |isbn=84-7507-472-3 |edition=3 |page=17}}</ref> The independence of Portugal since the late Middle Ages has favored the divergence of the Galician and Portuguese languages as they developed.<ref name="ethnologue">[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=glg Galician] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080328094338/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=glg |date=28 March 2008 }}), [[Ethnologue]]. Retrieved 19 February 2010.</ref> Though considered to be independent languages in Galicia, the shared history between Galician and Portuguese has been widely acknowledged; in 2014, the Galician parliament approved Law 1/2014 on the promotion of Portuguese and links with the [[Lusophony]].<ref>see [https://www.boe.es/eli/es-ga/l/2014/03/24/1/con full text of the law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731210721/https://www.boe.es/eli/es-ga/l/2014/03/24/1/con |date=31 July 2020 }}</ref>

The official Galician language has been standardized by the {{Lang|gl|[[Real Academia Galega]]|italic=no}} based on literary tradition. Although there are local dialects, Galician media conform to this standard form, which is also used in primary, secondary, and university education. There are more than three million Galician speakers in the world.<ref name="ethnologue" /> Galician ranks in the lower orders of the 150 most widely spoken languages on earth.<ref name="DossierGalicia" />

For more than four centuries of Castilian domination, Spanish was the only official language in Galicia. Galician faded from day-to-day use in urban areas. Since the re-establishment of democracy in Spain—in particular since the passage and implementation of the ''Lei de Normalización Lingüística'' ("Law of Linguistic Normalization", Ley 3/1983, 15 June 1983)—the first generation of students in mass education has attended schools conducted in Galician. (Spanish is also taught.)

Since the late 20th century and the establishment of Galicia's autonomy, the Galician language is resurgent. In the cities, it is generally used as a second language for most. According to a 2001 census, 99.16 percent of the population of Galicia understood the language, 91.04 percent spoke it, 68.65 percent could read it and 57.64 percent could write it.<ref name="lang-census">[http://www.xunta.es/linguagalega/arquivos/PNL22x24_textointegro).pdf Plano Xeral de Normalización da lingua galega] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215032113/http://www.xunta.es/linguagalega/arquivos/PNL22x24_textointegro%29.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219022556/http://xunta.es/linguagalega/arquivos/PNL22x24_textointegro).pdf |archive-date=2009-02-19 |url-status=live |date=15 February 2010 }}, Xunta de Galicia. (In Galician.) p. 38.</ref> The first two numbers (understanding and speaking) were roughly the same as responses a decade earlier. But there were great gains in the percentage of the population who could read and write Galician: a decade earlier, only 49.3 percent of the population could read Galician, and 34.85 percent could write it. During the [[Francisco Franco|Franco]] era, the teaching of Galician was prohibited. Today older people may speak the language but have no written competence because of those years.<ref name="lang-census" /> Among the [[regional language]]s of Spain, Galician has the highest percentage of speakers in its population. However, the acts of Popular Party in the Autonomous Community in the last decade, forbide the possibility of teaching in Galician at schools such a vehicular language and use it in the learning of some subjects, increasingly the monolinguism and the language substitution of Galician.

The earliest known document in Galician-Portuguese dates from 1228. The ''Foro do bo burgo do Castro Caldelas'' was granted by [[Alfonso IX of León]] to the town of Burgo, in [[Castro Caldelas]], after the model of the constitutions of the town of [[Allariz]].<ref>[http://consellodacultura.org/mediateca/pubs.pdf/doc_en_galego.pdf/ O Foro do bo burgo do Castro Caldelas, dado por Afonso IX in 1228], Consello da Cultura Galega. Retrieved 19 February 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102220353/http://consellodacultura.org/mediateca/pubs.pdf/doc_en_galego.pdf/ |date=2 November 2013 }}</ref> A distinct [[Galician literature]] emerged during the Middle Ages: In the 13th century important contributions were made to the Romance canon in Galician-Portuguese, the most notable those by the [[troubadour]] [[Martín Codax]], the priest [[Airas Nunes]], King [[Dinis of Portugal|Denis of Portugal]], and King [[Alfonso X of Castile]], ''Alfonso O Sabio'' ("Alfonso the Wise"), the same monarch who began the process of standardization of the Spanish language. During this period, Galician-Portuguese was considered the language of love poetry in the Iberian [[Romance languages|Romance]] linguistic culture. The names and memories of Codax and other popular cultural figures are well preserved in modern Galicia.

===Religion===
[[File:SantiagoCatedral!.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Santiago de Compostela Cathedral]], seat of the Archbishop of Santiago of Compostela, and third most important centre of pilgrimage in [[Christianity]].]]
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[[Christianity]] is the most widely practised religion in Galicia. It was introduced in [[Late Antiquity]] and was practiced alongside the native Celtic religion for a few centuries which, incidentally, was re-established as an officially recognised religion in 2015.<ref>[https://durvate.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/e-oficial-its-official/ É oficial – It's official] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801213302/https://durvate.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/e-oficial-its-official/ |date=1 August 2018 }}, ''Irmandade Druídica Galaica'' (Pan-Galician Druidic Fellowship) (access 1 August 2018)</ref><ref>[https://maper.mjusticia.gob.es/Maper/DetalleEntidadReligiosa.action?numeroInscripcion=022549 Detalle de Entidad Religiosa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118165858/https://maper.mjusticia.gob.es/Maper/DetalleEntidadReligiosa.action?numeroInscripcion=022549 |date=18 January 2022 }}, a record of inscription with the [[Ministry of Justice (Spain)]] (access 18 January 2022)</ref> Still, today about 77.7% of Galicians identify as Catholic.<ref name=CIS2019Extremadura/> Most Christians adhere to Catholicism, though only 32.1% of the population described themselves as active members.

The [[Catholic Church]] in Galicia has had its primatial see in Santiago de Compostela since the 12th century. In fact, since the [[Middle Ages]], the Galician Catholic Church has been organized into five dioceses: the Metropolitan see [[Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela|Santiago de Compostela]], and four suffragan dioceses: [[Diocese of Lugo|Lugo]], [[Diocese of Ourense|Ourense]], [[Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol|Mondoñedo-Ferrol]] and [[Diocese of Tui-Vigo|Tui-Vigo]]. While in the 15th-century diocesan boundaries may have coincided with those of the civil province, this is no longer the case. The five dioceses of Galicia are subdivided into a total of 163 districts and 3,792 parishes. In a minority of cases, the parish priest is represented by an administrator.

The patron saint of Galicia is [[Saint James the Greater]]. According to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] tradition, his body was discovered in 814 near Compostela. After that date, the relics of Saint James attracted an extraordinary number of pilgrims. Since the 9th century these relics have been kept in the heart of the church – the modern-day [[Santiago de Compostela Cathedral|cathedral]] – dedicated to him. There are many other Galician and associated saints; some of the best-known are: [[Ansurius|Saint Ansurius]], [[Rudesind|Saint Rudesind]], [[Marina of Aguas Santas|Saint Mariña of Augas Santas]], [[Senorina|Saint Senorina]], Trahamunda and Froilan.

===Education===
Galicia's education system is administered by the regional government's Ministry of Education and University Administration. 76% of Galician teenagers achieve a [[high school diploma|high school degree]] – ranked fifth out of the 17 autonomous communities.

There are three [[public universities]] in Galicia: [[University of A Coruña]] with campuses in [[A Coruña]] and [[Ferrol, Galicia|Ferrol]], [[University of Santiago de Compostela]] with campuses in [[Santiago de Compostela]] and [[Lugo]] and the [[University of Vigo]] with campuses in [[Pontevedra Campus|Pontevedra]], [[Ourense]] and [[Vigo]].

===Health care===
{{Main|Servizo Galego de Saúde}}
Galicia's [[Publicly funded health care|public healthcare]] system is the {{lang|gl|Servizo Galego de Saúde}} (SERGAS). It is administered by the regional government's Ministry of Health.