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 AREA AND POPULATION.

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Germans.

9,000,000

Servians ....

1,470,000

Bohemians, Moravians anc 1

Bulgarians

25,000

Slovacks

6,600,000

Magyars ....

5,450,000

Poles. .

2,200,000

Italians (inclusive of Latins

Ruthenians

2,800,000

and Friauls).

1,050,000

Slovenians

1,210,000

Eastern-Romans

2,700,000

Croats

1,360,000

Members of other races

1,430,000

At the last census, the Germans constituted 38 per cent, of the inhabitants in the Cisleithan part of the empire, 18 per cent, in the Transleithan part, and nearly 5 per cent, in the district of the Military Frontier. The people of the Slavonian races formed 49 per cent, of the population in the Cisleithan, and 16 per cent, in the Transleithan division. The race third in numbers, the Magyars, constituted 38 per cent, of the population of the kingdom of Hungary, -^ per cent, of the district of the Military Frontier, and

per cent, of the Cisleithan part of the empire.

Trade and Industry.

The total commerce of Austria, comprising imports and exports, as well as transit, for the whole of the empire, except the province of Dalmatia — not within the Imperial line of customs — was of the average value of 816,000,000 florins, or 81,600,000/. in the three years 1866-68. The imports averaged 294,000,000 florins, or 29,400,000/. ; the exports 407,000,000 florins, or 40,700,000/., and the transit 115,000,000 florins, or 11,500,000/. These values only represented merchandise, and did not include bullion and coin im- ported annually to the value of 26,000,000 florins, or 2,600,000/., and exported to the amount of 39,000,000 florins, or 3,900,000/.

The principal article of import into the Austrian empire is raw cotton, the declared value of it amounting to 33,046,866 florins, or 3,304,686/. in 1867, and to 35,835,796 florins, or 3,583,579/. in 1868. Of articles of export the chief are corn and flour, together of the declared value of 79,854,680 florins, or 7,985,468/. in 1867, and of 103,014,494 florins, or 10,301,449/. in 1868. The subjoined statement gives the value of the imports and exports during each of the years 1867 and 1868 : —

1867

1868

Imports .... Exports ....

Florins 303,649,481 424,324,041

Florins 396,935.079 439,820,769

Total.

727,973,522

836,755,848

Nearly two-thirds of the whole commerce of the Austrian empire, both as regards imports and exports, is carried on with Germany.