been used by the Sahrawi people for over a century, the Cervantes Institute does not provide support or Spanish-language education to Sahrawis in Western Sahara and the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. A group of Sahrawi poets known as 'Generación de la Amistad saharaui' produce Sahrawi literature in Spanish. Religions Sunni Islam is the major religion in Western Sahara. Sunni Muslims constitute about 99.9% of the population. Prior to 1975 there were over 20,000 Roman Catholics in Western Sahara but there were only around 100. Nationality Noun: Western Saharan(s) adjective: Western Saharan Population 400,000 (November 2014 est.) Age structure 0–14 years: 44.9% (male 92,418/female 89,570) 15–64 years: 53.8% (male 105,191/female 108,803) 65 years and over: 2.3% (male 3,881/female 5,337) (2010 est.) Population growth rate 3.097% (2011 est.) Birth rate 39.54 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death rate 11.49 deaths/1,000 population (2010 est.) Net migration rate −6.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.) Morocco has a policy of subsidizing Moroccan settlers in the territory. Infant mortality rate 69.66 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.) Life expectancy at birth total population: 54.32 years male: 52 years female: 56.73 years (2010 est.) Total fertility rate 4.3 children born/woman (2011 est.) Literacy definition: NA total population: NA% male: NA% female: NA% Refugees The events triggered by the Moroccan and Mauritanian joint invasion of Western Sahara at the end of 1975 are directly linked to the large displacement of the Saharawi population, most of whom live as refugees in south-west Algeria. The major bulk of Saharawis became refugees during the war between the Polisario Front and Morocco. The south-western desert region near Tindouf offered a potential safe region. Algeria, in its rivalry with Morocco, offered the Sahrawis a safe place to settle and actively supported the Polisario. The next Saharawi exodus, although on a smaller scale, took place in 1979 when Mauritania withdrew from the conflict and Morocco annexed the rest of Western Sahara. Exact figures cannot be provided for the numbers that fled the territory in those two waves, but the estimations are between 1/3 and 2/3 of the total population at that time. The current size of the population in the refugee camps is believed to be around 165,000. Used by the Algerian government, this figure is the most widely quoted by NGOs and is also used by the UNHCR and the World Food Programme to raise funds for food aid to the refugees. In the 2004