During the last third of the 18th century, the Spanish Bourbon administration was concerned on successive occasions to ascertain, for demographic purposes, the number of inhabitants living throughout the national territory. The Censuses of Aranda (1768-69), Floridablanca (1787) and Godoy (1797) provided population figures classified by age, sex and marital status. The 1787 Census was compiled by the State administration, using the data transmitted by the Intendencias, the corregimientos and the municipalities. The Mallorcan population, classified by age, sex and status, amounted to 134,790 souls on that date, to which should be added, following the criteria of the Census, the institutional and community population, which totalled 2,478 people. However, at that time, Palma had a population of 34,073 inhabitants, to which another 2,047 living in communities were added, giving a total of 36,120, representing 26.28% of the total demographic contingent: one out of every four Mallorcans lived in the capital.
Collection: Statistics
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVIII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: https://www.adeh.org/revista/1990,%201/J%20Juan,%20VIII,%201,%201990,%20pp%2031-53.pdf
Resource type: Statistics
Format: Table
Source: Vidal, José Juan, «Palma en 1787: estructura demográfica y socioprofesinoal según el censo de Floridablanca», Revista de demografía histórica, vol. 8, nº1, 1990, pp. 31–53.
Language: Spanish
Date: 1990
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Copyright: © José Juan Vidal © Revista de Demografía Histórica
Abstract: The population of Palma de Mallorca through the Floridablanca census of 1787
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