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Of the total iiopulntioii in 1895, 1,850,142 or 48'8 per cent., live ii^ towns and the ivniainiU'r, 51 '2 per cent., in rural communes.

The population in 1895 included 1,838,422 males, and 1,949,266 females, i.e. 106 "0 females per 100 males. The conjugal condition of the population was as follows in 1895 : —

—

Males

Females

Totfil

Children .... Adults —

Unmarried

Married ....

Widowed

Divorced or separated ,

649,436

449,539

690,562

45,777

3,108

662,929

427,780

692,248

159,491

6,818

1,312,365

877,319

1,382,810

205,268

9,926

The division of the population according to occupation is shown under the German Empire, Besides the German population, Saxony contains (1885) 19,916 Wends, most of them in the district of Bautzen. In 1895 there were (besides other Germans) 82,357 foreigners.

The movement of the population is shown in the following table : —

Surplus

Year

MaiTJagos

Total Births

Stillborn

Illegitimate

Total Deaths

of Births

1892

31,000

147,599

5,071

18,271

94,875

47,653

1893

31,388

151,293

5,135

18,879

97,883

48,275

1894

32,382

145,661

5,080

18,988

87,079

58,582

1895

33,693

151,473

5,313

19,001

90,656

55,524

1896

i

35,142

157,593

5,376

20,525

85,677

66,540

The emigration from Saxony, embarking at German and Dutch ports, was as follows : —

1890

1891

1892

1893

1894

1895

1896

1897

2,577

4,126

4,920

3,908

2,018

1,914

1,303

950

The population of the principal towns, according to the results of the census, December 2, 1895, is : —

Leipzig

399,963

Zittau.

. 28,132

Dresden

336,440

Glauchau.

. 24,914

Chemnitz.

161,017

Reichenbach.

. 24,415

Plauen

55,191

Bautzen.

. 23,678

Zwickau

50,391

.Crimmitschau.

. 23,553

Freiberg

29,287

iMeerane.

. 23,074

Religion.

Although the royal family is of the Roman Catholic confession, the vast majority of the inhabitants of Saxony are Protestants. The distribution of the diflerent creeds was as' follows in 1895 : — Lutherans, 3,611,670, or 95*35 per cent.; Roman Catholics, 140,285, or 3'70 per cent.; Reformists, 10,538 ;