Page:Statesman's Year-Book 1921.djvu/971

 AREA AND POPULATION 919

According to the Treaty of Versailles (Jane 28, 1919) Germany has agreed to the following territorial rearrangements : — (1) Alsace Lorraine has been ceded to France, (2) the greater part ot the Province of West Prussia has been ceded to Poland, (3) a part of Eastern Silesia likewise to Poland, (4) a portion of Upper Silesia to Czecho-Slovakia, (5) Memel to the Allies, (6) Danzig to th'- Allies, (7) Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium.

Provision is made in the Treaty to settle the ultimate fate of the following areas by plebiscite :— (1) The Saar Basin (after 15 years), (2) Schleswig(in two zones), (3) districts in Southern East Prussia, in West Prussia and in Upper Silesia Results of the plibixciUs — Schleswig (March, 1920), northern zone for Denmark, southern zone for Germany ; East and West Prussia (July, 1920) for Germany ; Upper Silesia (March, 1921) for Germany.

An estimate of the actual areas and populations of these districts has been made as follows: — Alsace- Lorraine, 5,604 square miles, population 1,874.014 ; ceded to Belgium, 386 square miles, population 60,924 ; ceded to Poland, 16,744 square miles, population 2,961,685 ; Memel, 1,057 square miles, population 140,746 ; Danzig, 794 square miles, population 330,252 ; total 24,540 square miles, population 537,621.

The Saar Bisin, which will be placed under the government of the League of Nations, has an area of 751 square miles and a population of 657,870. The area of the occupied territory is about 9,650 square miles, containing about 7 million inhabitants.

The population of 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 inter- vention of the war with France.

w Tear

Increase

Annual Rate percent.

093

Tear

Increase

Annual Rate per cent.

1867 1

3,220,083

1890

-',766

107

1871

970,171

060

1895

2,851,431

1-12

1875

1,668,568

1-0

1900

4,087,277

1-51

1880

2,506,701

114

1905

4,274,311

146

1885

1,621,643

070

1910

4.284,504

136

i 8ince 1S5S

II. Movement of thk Population.

The following table shows the movement of the population of the old Empire during three years : —

Tear Marriages

1915 278,208

1916 279,076

SSL StUlW Illegitimate ™£ S^ptoof

1,425,596 i 43,050 159,422 1, 062,751* 362,845 1,062,287 32,803 117,677 993.470 * 68,817

1917* 308,446 939,938 27,829 108,333 ! 1,082, 334 » 142,396

• Exclusive of military casualtiea. » Bxelnitva of Alsace-Lorraine.

Of the children born in 1917, 486,572 were boys, and 453,366 girls ; in 1916, 549,390 were boys and 512,897 girls; and in 1915, 733,655 were boys and 691.941 girls.