POPULATION.
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The following table exhibits the numbers of the population of Scotland at the dates of the several enumerations, together with the increase between each census, and the percentage of decennial increase.
Percentage
Dates of Enumeration
Population
Increase
of Decennial Increase
March 10, 1801
1,608,420
.
May 17, 1811
1,805,864
197,444
12-27
May 28, 1821
2,091,521
285,657
1582
May 29, 1831
2,364,386
272,865
13-04
June 7, 1841
2,620,184
255,798
10-82
March 31, 1851
2,888,742
268,558
10-25
April 8, 1861
3,062,294
173,552
600
Increase in sixty years
1,453,874
90-32
The division of the population into five classes, after the same method as that adopted in England, presented the following result : —
1. Professional class ....
2. Domestic ,,
3. Commercial ,,....
4. Agricultural „
5. Industrial „
6. Indefinite „
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1851
1861
42.001 1,731,279
74,756 388,203 543,662 108,841
52,515
1,734,295
84,338
378.609
694,074
118,463
2,888,742
3,062,294
In 1861, therefore, of every 100,000 persons in Scotland 1,715 be- longed to the professional class, 2,754 to the commercial, 12,364 to the agricultural, 22,665 to the industrial ; while 56,634 were classed as domestic, and 3,868 undefined, or ill-defined.
The following table of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland, for the years 1861-69, with the estimated population ' for the middle of each year, is compiled from the returns of the Registrar-General : —
Years
Estimated population
Births
Deaths
Marriages
1861
3,062,294
107,036
62,287
20,828
1862
3,079,650
107,138
67,159
20,544
1863
3,101,006
109,325
71,421
22.087
1864
3,118,701
112,445
74,303
22,675
1865
3,136,057
113,126
70,821
23,577
1866
3,153,413
113,639
71,273
23,629
1867
3,170,769
114,115
69,024
22,521
1868
3,188,125
115,673
69.386
21,853
1869
3,205,481
113,395
75,789
22,083
