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 AREA AND POPULATION.

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nearly 1^- per cent. At the general census of 1858, the population of Germany was found to be 35,334,538, showing an average annual increase of little more than f per cent. The decline was caused, not by a lessening of natural increase, but the setting-in and gradual rise of a stream of emigration, chiefly towards the United States of America.

The following two tables exhibit the census results of the years 1816, 1837, and 1858, together with the. density of population, and the average annual rate of increase in the principal and secondary States of Germany : —

Inhabitants

Inhabitants

Population

to the square geographical

Population

to the square geographical

States of Germany

mile

mile

1816

1837

Prussia. .

10,425,091

2,043

14,160,063

2,774

Bavaria.

3,560,000

2,566

4,315,469

3,110

Saxony-

1,200,000

4,413

1,652,114

6,076

Hanover.

1,305,351

1,868

1,688,288

2,416

"Wurtemberg

1,395,462

3,939

1,611,317

4,548

Baden

1,000,000

3,592

1,264,482

4,542

Kest of Germany Total

4,217,307

—

5,298,978

—

23,103,211

2,413

30,010,711

3,134

States of Germany

Population

Inhabitants Annual in. Ann>, al in _ to the square ' crease jn the i crease in the ge ° S nlue 1C period 1816-37| P eriod 1837-58

1858

Per cent. Per cent.

Prussia

Bavaria

Saxony

Hanover

Wurtemberg

Baden

Minor States

17,739.913 4,615,748 2,122,148 1,844,651 1,690,898 1,335 952 5,985,228

3,476 3,327 7,805 2,640 4,773 4,799

1-70 101 1-79 1-40 0.74 1-26 1-22

1-21 0-33 1-36 0-41 0-24 0-27 061

Total.

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35,334,538

3,690

1-42

085

It will be seen that the increase of population during both the periods 1816-37 and 1837-58 was greatest in Saxony, and, next to it, in Prussia, while it was least in Wurtemberg. The general decline of increase which took place in the period from 1837 to 1858 was less also in Saxony and Prussia than in all the other States of Germany.