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Of the total iiopulntioii in 1895, 1,850,142 or 48'8 per cent., live ii^ towns and the ivniainiU'r, 51 '2 per cent., in rural communes.
The population in 1895 included 1,838,422 males, and 1,949,266 females, i.e. 106 "0 females per 100 males. The conjugal condition of the population was as follows in 1895 : —
—
Males
Females
Totfil
Children .... Adults —
Unmarried
Married ....
Widowed
Divorced or separated ,
649,436
449,539
690,562
45,777
3,108
662,929
427,780
692,248
159,491
6,818
1,312,365
877,319
1,382,810
205,268
9,926
The division of the population according to occupation is shown under the German Empire, Besides the German population, Saxony contains (1885) 19,916 Wends, most of them in the district of Bautzen. In 1895 there were (besides other Germans) 82,357 foreigners.
The movement of the population is shown in the following table : —
Surplus
Year
MaiTJagos
Total Births
Stillborn
Illegitimate
Total Deaths
of Births
1892
31,000
147,599
5,071
18,271
94,875
47,653
1893
31,388
151,293
5,135
18,879
97,883
48,275
1894
32,382
145,661
5,080
18,988
87,079
58,582
1895
33,693
151,473
5,313
19,001
90,656
55,524
1896
i
35,142
157,593
5,376
20,525
85,677
66,540
The emigration from Saxony, embarking at German and Dutch ports, was as follows : —
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
2,577
4,126
4,920
3,908
2,018
1,914
1,303
950
The population of the principal towns, according to the results of the census, December 2, 1895, is : —
Leipzig
399,963
Zittau .
. 28,132
Dresden
336,440
Glauchau .
. 24,914
Chemnitz .
161,017
Reichenbach .
. 24,415
Plauen
55,191
Bautzen .
. 23,678
Zwickau
50,391
.Crimmitschau .
. 23,553
Freiberg
29,287
iMeerane .
. 23,074
Religion.
Although the royal family is of the Roman Catholic confession, the vast majority of the inhabitants of Saxony are Protestants. The distribution of the diflerent creeds was as' follows in 1895 : — Lutherans, 3,611,670, or 95*35 per cent.; Roman Catholics, 140,285, or 3'70 per cent.; Reformists, 10,538 ;