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 AREA AND POPULATION

1273

Governments (Lan)

Area: English square miles

4,938

Population Dec. 31, 1910

Population Dec. 31, 1911

Pop. per

square mile 1911

Alfsborg

287,692

288,950

58-5

okaraborg Varraland

3,280 7,435

241,284 260,135

241,411 260,543

73-6 35-0

Orebr-o Vastmanland

3,498 2,625

207,021 155,920

208,626 157,145

59-6 59-9

Kopparberg.

11,522

233,873

235,437

20-4

Gafleborg

7,614

253,792

255,181

33-5

Vasternorrland.

9,837

250,512

253,315

25-8

Jamtland

1 19,712

118,115

119,262

6-1

Vasterbotten

1 22,754

161,366

162.694

7-2

Norrbotten.


 * 40,870

161,132

163,130

4-0

Lakes Vanern, Vattern

, MJilaren,

Hjahnaren

•

3,516

—

—

—

Total.

•

172,876

5,522,403

5,561,799

32-2

111 1911 there were 2,718,638 males and 2,843,161 females. The growth of the population has been as follows : —

Year

Population

1840 1S80

3,138,887 4,565,668

Increase per ct. per annum

0-95

Year

Population

1900 1910

5,136,441 5,522,403

Increase i)er ct. per annum

0-71 0-72

With the exception of (1900) 22,138 Finns, 6,983 Lapps, and some thousands others, the Swedish population is entirely of the Scandinavian branch of the Aryan family.

In 1900 the foreign-born population numbered 35,627, of whom 5 107 r/n^ °''V ^^^^,*ny' 6' 874 in Denmark, 7,978 in Norway, 6,644 in Finknd, 1,506 in Russia, 779 in the United Kingdom, and 5,130 in the United States.

ine population was divided as follow^ in 1900 :—

Unmarried Married.

Male

1,566,868 838,909

Female

1,566,668 847,252

Male

Female

Widowed Divorced

98,647 1,922

212,461 3,624

Leading occupations in 1900, including families and dependents :—

Agriculture, &c. :

Landed and farm proprietors

Farmers, overseers, &c.

Planters, &c.

Crofters, cottagers, &c.

Dairy-keepers

Gardeners Pi-sheries .... Mining and metal works.

1,179,669

275,148

352,205

495,655

18,329

19,107

33,944

319,683

I Timber works Various manufactures Trade and locomotion Officials and military Learning and litei-ature Medicine, &c. Owners, pensioners, Ac. Mechanics servants, Ac Various.

150,005

740,152

414,143

196,967

49,258

26,058

339,601

462,480

63,977