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 AREA AND POPULATION

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figures are given in the above. The figures showing density of population are calculated in proportion to the areas from which the areas covered by the larger inner waters have been excluded, while the areas given in the above table include the inner waters.

The proportion of wx^nien in the population varies, in the Russian pro- vinces, from 116-2 per each 100 men (Kaluga) and 119-4 (Tver) to 87*4 (St. Petersburg) and 89-8 (Taurida) — this disproportion being due to the male population temporarily moving to the capitals or to the shipbuilding centres during the winter. The average proportions are : —

Russian Provinces, 102*8 Avomcn for 100 men ; Poland, 98-6 women fur 100 men; Finland, 102-2 Avomen for 100 men; Caucasus, 89-5 women for 100 men; Siberia, 93-7 women for 100 men; The Steppes, 89-4 for 100 men; Turkestan and Transcaspian, 83 '0 women for 100 men ; Russian Empire, 100 women for 100 men.

The ethnical composition of the population will be shown when the results of the recent census have been worked out. In the meantime, the following rough estimates concerning the Russian population of the Empire may be computed f rom Rittich's p ercentage figures, (see Year-Book 1885, j). 416; : —

Groups of Provinces

Population

Great Russians

1 Little Russians

Northern and Baltic

6,572,000

3,600,000

Lithuania, White Russia and

South-west Russia

19,719,000

200,000 (6,800,000)

White Russians)

8,810,000

Little Russia and Don

12,750,000

4,000,000

8,400,000

Central Russia.

28,082,000

26,100,000

1,000,000

Volga Provinces

9,923,000

6,100,000

3,800,000

Xorth-east Russia

9,913,000

7,400,000

100,000

Southern Provdnces.

8,222,000

1,300,000

4,300,000

European Russia

94,081,000

49,700,000

(7,000,000

White Russians)

26,400,000

Caucasia, about

9,724,000

3,000

,000

Siberia, ,,

5,731,000

5,000

,000

Turkestan, Transcaspian, and

Kirghiz Stoppes, about. , j

1

7,590,000

1,000

,000

For other ethnical elements of the population, see Year-book 1885, p. 416. The populations of the Caucasus appear as follows, according to recent investigations : —

Jews. . 50,992 Kartvelians : — Georgians. 310,499 Mingrelians 200,092 Imeretes. 373,141 Pshaves, Khev- zurs. . 20,079 Western Moun- taineers. 188,083

3 N

Russians

. 1,915,614

Poles.

8,910

Germans

23,613

Greeks

42,562

Iranians :-

—

Ossets

. 127,430

Persians,

Tat is.

Talysh]

ns 132,792

Kurds

10,097

Armenians

. 803,696

Eastern Moun-

taineers.

707,619

Tartars. 1

,027,828

Turks

75,980

Turcomans,

&c. Northern

44,046

Tartars. Kalmuks.

126,000 10,707