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 AREA AND POPULATION

781

Dates

Area ; sq. miles

207,765

Doiuiciled Population

Inhabitants per sq. mile

Annual Increase per 10,009 inhabits.

ISOl

27,349,003

131

[26,930,756]

[130]

—

1821

—

30,461,875

146

57

[20,871,176]

[144]

[55

1841

—

34,230,178

164

62

[33,400,864]

[161]

[58]

1861

212,659

37,386,313

176

37

[35,844,902]

[173]

[36]

1806

—

38,067,064

178

40

[36,495,489]

[176]

[36]

1872

207,054

36,102,921

174

—96^ [-17]!

1876

—

36,905,788

178

54

1881

—

37,672,048

182

41

1886

—

38,218,903

184

29

1891

—

38,342,948

185

6-5

1896

—

38,517,332

186

4-5

1901

—

38.961,945

188

—

1906

—

39,252,267

189

—

1911

—

39,601,509

1S9

—

1 Decrease.

In 1906, the foreign nationalities most numerously represented were English, 35,990 ; Belgians and Luxembourgeois, 310,433 ; German.s, 87,836 Austiians, 13,001; Swiss, 68,892; Italians, 377,638; Spaniards, 80,914 Russians, 25,605 ; others, 46,576 ; total, 1,046,885. In 1911 the total was 1,132,696.

The active population of 1906 was returned under the following occupa- tions : Fisheries, 78,000 ; agriculture and forestry, 8,777,053 ; mines and quarries, 281,027; manufacturing industries, 5,979,216; transport, &c., 887,337 ; commerce, 2,002,681 ; liberal professions, 483,179 ; domestic service, &;c., 1,012,232; public service (including the army), 1,220,154; total, 20,720,879, of whom 7,693,412 were of the female sex.

II. Movement of the Population. Births, Dcallis, and Mm^riages.

Living Births

Illegitimate

Surplus of

Year

Marriages

Living

Deaths

Bii-ths

Still-born

Births

over Deaths

1906

306,487

806,847

71,466

780,196

26,651

37,326

1907

314,061

772,681

71,075

791,752

-19,071

36,765

1908

315,641

792,178

70,413

744,135

+ 48,043

37,536

1909

307,687

769,565

67,505

754,957

+ 14,608

36,076

1910

307,710

774,390

66,978

702,972

+ 71,418

36,009

1911

307,788

742,114

—

776,983

-34,869

33,840

In 1911 the average birth rate for all France (living births) was 1"87 per cent, of population. The de|)artments in which the rate was highest were Finistere, 2-69 per 100 ; Pas-de-Calais, 2-62 per 100 ; Morbihan, 2-56 per 100. It was lowest in Gers, I "26; and Lot-et-Garonne, 1*34. The marriage rate in 1911 wati 1'55 percent., and the death rate 1 "96. In 1910 the living