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 RELIGION AND INSTRUCTION

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MOTKMENT OF THE POPULATION". 1. Births, Deaths, and Marriages.

Tear

Total living Births

Of which Illegitimate

Stillborn Marriages

Deaths

exclusive of ••orn

Surplus of

Births over

Deaths

1915 1010 19171 19181 19191

122,997 121,679 184,441

117,739 114.50. -.

19.494 18,186

3,095 33,182 3,087 35,024

— 16,588

— 38,626

— 40.327

83,587

104,183 81,247

39,410

•MM

43,304

13,^56 30,258

1 Provisional.

2. Emigration.

Tear

Immi- grants

Total

Emigrants

To U. a of _

America j xear

Immi- grants

Total Emigrants

To U. B. of America

1912 1913 lyl4 1915

B.3M

S.407 8,636 6,357

1S.117 ,

20.346

12,960

13,896 16,329 9,589 4,538

1916 1919

6,713 5.S11 4,932 7,809

10,571 6,440 4,853 7,337



MM 1,416 3,777

II. Principal Towvb.

In 1860 the town population numbered only 434,519, in 1900 1,103,951, and at the beginning of 1920, 1,715,969, showing an increase of from 11 per cent, of the whole population of Sweden (in 1860) to 30 per cent, (in 1920).

Towns over 10,000 inhabitants at the beginning of 1920 : —

Stockholm

. 415,201

Borås. ..

. 27,46*5

Göteborg. .

. 200,577

Karlskrona.

. 27,029

. 111,931

Linköping.

. 26.300

Norrköping.

. 57,377

Lund. ..

. J8,8S7

Hälsingborg.

. 45,927

Landskrona.

. 19,542

. 17

Karlstad. .

. 18.922

. 35,096

Halmstad

. 18,276

Eskilstuna

. 30,103

Sundsvall

. 16,861

Västerås. .

. 29,530

Kalmar. .

. 16,-00

Jönköping

. 28,875

Södertälje.

. 14.897

Uppsala. .

. 28,041

Trollhättan.

. 14,810

Uddevalla Östersund. Kristianstad Falun. . Västervik. Nyköping. Ystad. . Kristinehamn Söderhamn Trälleborg Luleå. .

13.594 13,321 12,455

12.21-2

11,461 11,319

11,238 11,086 10,924 10,281

Religion and Instruction.

The mass of the population adhere to the Lutheran Protestant Church, recognised as the State religion. There are 12 bishoprics (Uppsala being the metropolitan see), and 2,587 parishes at the beginning of 1920. At the census of 1910, the number of 'Evangelical Lutherans' was returned at 5,497,689, the Protestant Dissenters, Baptists, and Methodists, numbering 14,715. Of other creeds, there were 3,070 Roman Catholics (under a Vicar Apostolic resident at Stockholm), 6,112 Jews, and 817 others. No civil disabilities attach to those not of the national religion. The clergy are chiefly supported from the parishes and the proceeds of the Church lands.

The Kingdom has two universities, at Uppsala (founded in 1477) and Lund (founded in 1668), the former having 2,517 and the latter 1.444 students in the autumn of 1919. There are also a State faculty of medicine in Stockholm (founded in 1810), with 680 students, and private universities in Stockholm (founded in 1877), philosophical and law faculties, with 832 students, and Goteborg (founded in 1889), philosophical faculty, with 239 students. In Stockholm there is also an academy of commerce