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 AREA AND POPULATION

857

Area

Populat

ion Dec. 1, 1910

Pop.

ytates of the Empire

English sq. miles

per sq.

mile 1910

Male

Female i

Total

106,442

Mecklenburg-Str. .

1,131

53,518

52,924 '

93

8

Saxe-Meiningen.

953

136,614

142,148

278,762

291

5

Anhalt

888

161,134

169,994

331,128

373

9

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

764

125,330

131,847

257,177

337

Saxe-Altenburg.

511

106,278

109,850

216,128

423

3

Lippe.

469

73,254

77,683

150,937

321

4

Waldeck

433

30,544

31,163

61,707

142

5

S ch warzburg- Rud.

363

49,335

51,367

100,702

277

5

Scliwarzburg-Sond.

333

44,149

45,768

89,917

270

2

Reuss Junr. Branch

319

74,345

78,407

152,752

478

9

Schaumburg-Lippe.

131

23,400

23,252

46,652

352

5

Reuss Elder Branch

122

34,781

37,988

72,769

595

2

Hamburg

160

504,902

509,762

1,014,664

6,973

•1

Liibeck

115

56,911

59,688

116,599

1,013

•3

Bremen

99

148,529

150,997

299,526

3,017

•6

Alsace-Lorraine.

5,604 208,780

965,625

908,389

1,874,014

333-9

Total.

32,040,166

32,885,827

64,925,993

310-4

The population of the lands now included in the German Empire (with- out Helgoland) 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- inter- vention of the war with France.

Year

Increase

Annual Rate

Year

Increase

Annual Rate

per cent.

per cent.

1867 1

3,220,083

0-97

1 1890

2,572,766

ro7

1871

970,171

0-60

1895

2,851,431

1-12

1875

1,668,568

1 !

1900

4,087,277

1-50

1880

2,50G.70L

1-14

1905

4,274,311

1-46

1885

1,621,643

0-7

1910

4,284,504

1-36

1 Since 1855.

The increase of population duiint; 1905-10 was greatest in Bremen, Ham burg, Oldenburg, Liibeck, Prussia, Hesse, Baden and Saxony, and least ii Anhalt, Brunswick, and Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

The number of households in 1905 was 13,274,531 (in 1900, 12,260,012) Of the total population in 1895, 50*2 per cent., in 1900, 47*0 per cent., ii 1905, 54*3 per cent., lived in towns of 2,000 inhabitants and above '^ every 100 inhabitants there lived in —

m Of

—

No.ofTowns

1895

No.offowns

1900

No.ofTowns

1905

Large towns ^.

28

13-9

33

16-2

41

19-0

Medium ,,

150

10-7

194

12-6

208

12-9

Small, ,

806

13-6

864

13-5


 * 945

13-7

Country ,,

2,111

12-0

2,269

12-1

2,386

11-8

Other places

—

49-8

73,599

45-6

72,811

42-6

1 For the official signification of these nanies see under Principal Towns.