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As of 2024, there were 8,915,831 foreign-born people in Spain, making up to 18.31% of the Spanish population [41] Of these, 6,581,028 (13.51%) didn't have Spanish citizenship. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] This makes Spain one of the world's preferred destinations to immigrate to , being the 4th country in Europe by immigration numbers and the 10th worldwide.
Of approximately 5.1 million respondents, about 1.2 million (24%) could speak, read and write Scots, 3.2 million (62%) had no skills in Scots and the remainder had some degree of skill, such as understanding Scots (0.27 million, 5.2%) or being able to speak it but not read or write it (0.18 million, 3.5%). [53] There were also small numbers of ...
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire began in February 1519 when Hernán Cortés founded the Spanish city of Veracruz. The 1521 capture of Tenochtitlan and posterior founding of the Spanish capital Mexico City on its ruins was the beginning of a 300-year-long colonial era during which Mexico was known as Nueva España ( New Spain ).
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. [2] [3] The election was contentious, with international monitors calling it neither free nor fair, [4] citing the incumbent Maduro administration having controlled most institutions and repressed the political opposition before, during, [2] [5] and after the ...
A Japanese device called the "Computer Loan Machine" supplied cash as a three-month loan at 5% p.a. after inserting a credit card. The device was operational in 1966. [23] [24] However, little is known about the device. [16] Actor Reg Varney using the world's first cash machine at Barclays Bank, Enfield, north London on 27 June 1967
While these numbers are lower than the World Bank's $1.25 per day income-based definition, the definition is similar to China's US$0.65 per day official poverty line in 2008. [ 47 ] The World Bank's international poverty line definition is based on purchasing power parity basis, at $1.25 per day.
ADHD is diagnosed approximately twice as often in boys as in girls, [5] [341] and 1.6 times more often in men than in women, [5] although the disorder is overlooked in girls or diagnosed in later life because their symptoms sometimes differ from diagnostic criteria.
Some Romance languages, particularly French and Spanish, are also widely used. [5] Yiddish has been spoken by more Jews in history than any other language, [ 202 ] but it is far less used today following the Holocaust and the adoption of Modern Hebrew by the Zionist movement and the State of Israel .