AREA AND POPULATION.
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nearly 1^- per cent. At the general census of 1858, the population of Germany was found to be 35,334,538, showing an average annual increase of little more than f per cent. The decline was caused, not by a lessening of natural increase, but the setting-in and gradual rise of a stream of emigration, chiefly towards the United States of America.
The following two tables exhibit the census results of the years 1816, 1837, and 1858, together with the. density of population, and the average annual rate of increase in the principal and secondary States of Germany : —
Inhabitants
Inhabitants
Population
to the square geographical
Population
to the square geographical
States of Germany
mile
mile
1816
1837
Prussia . .
10,425,091
2,043
14,160,063
2,774
Bavaria .
3,560,000
2,566
4,315,469
3,110
Saxony-
1,200,000
4,413
1,652,114
6,076
Hanover .
1,305,351
1,868
1,688,288
2,416
"Wurtemberg
1,395,462
3,939
1,611,317
4,548
Baden
1,000,000
3,592
1,264,482
4,542
Kest of Germany Total
4,217,307
—
5,298,978
—
23,103,211
2,413
30,010,711
3,134
States of Germany
Population
Inhabitants Annual in . Ann> , al in _ to the square ' crease jn the i crease in the ge ° S nlue 1C period 1816-37| P eriod 1837-58
1858
Per cent. Per cent.
Prussia
Bavaria
Saxony
Hanover
Wurtemberg
Baden
Minor States
17,739.913 4,615,748 2,122,148 1,844,651 1,690,898 1,335 952 5,985,228
3,476 3,327 7,805 2,640 4,773 4,799
1-70 101 1-79 1-40 0.74 1-26 1-22
1-21 0-33 1-36 0-41 0-24 0-27 061
Total .
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35,334,538
3,690
1-42
085
It will be seen that the increase of population during both the periods 1816-37 and 1837-58 was greatest in Saxony, and, next to it, in Prussia, while it was least in Wurtemberg. The general decline of increase which took place in the period from 1837 to 1858 was less also in Saxony and Prussia than in all the other States of Germany.
