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 AREA AND POPULATION

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The population of the lands now inehuied in the German Empire (without Heligoland) was 24,831,396 in 1816, and 31,589,547 in 1837, showing an average annual increase of nearly 1*3 per cent. The following table shows the actual increase in population at various periods, with the annual rate of increase per cent. The small increase in 1867-71 is explained by the intervention of the war with France.

Year

Increase

Annual Rate per cent.

Year

Increase

Annual Rate per cent.

1858 1867 1871 1875

5,371,195

3,220,083

970,171

1,668,568

0-75

0-97 0-61 1

1880

1885

1890

i 1895

2,506,701 1,621,643 2,570,680 2,851,431

1-14

0-7

1-07

112

The increase of population during 1890-95 was greatest in Keuss Younger Branch, Hamburg, Liibeck, Bremen, Saxony, Anhalt, Brunswick, and Reuss Elder Branch ; and least in Wiirttemberg and Waldeck.

The number of inhabited houses in 1890 was 5,790,689, and of households 10,617,923 (in 1895, 11,256,150). Of the total population in 1895, 49*9 per cent., in 1890 47*0 per cent, lived in towns of 2,000 inhabitants and above. Of every 100 inhabi- tants there lived in —

No.ofTowns

1885

No.ofTowns

1890

No.ofTowns

1895

Larfjje towns ^.

21

9-5

26

12-1

28

13-9

Medium ,,

116

8-9

135

9-8

150

10-7

Small ,,

683

12-9

733

13-1

796

13-5

Country ,,

1,951

12-4

1,997

120

2,068

11-8

Other places

—

56-3

—

53-0

—

50-1

1 For the official signification of these names see p. 536.

Of the total population in 1895, 25,661,250 were males and 26,618,651 were females. In 1890 boys under 10 years of age numbered 5,993,681 ; girls, 5,966,226 ; men over 80 years of age numhercd 90,161 ; women, 119,289.

With respect to conjugal condition, the following was the distribution in 1890:—

_

Males

Females

Total

Unmamed ....

Married

Widowed

Divorced and separated

15,058,108

8,372,486

774,967

25,271

14,591,560

8,398,607

2,157,870

49,601

29,649,668

16,771,093

2,932,837

74,872

According to the occupation-census of June 14, 1895, the population of Germany was divided as in the table below. Of the total, 22,013,683 were actually engaged in the various occupation.s.