AREA AND POPULATION
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figures are given in the above. The figures showing density of population are calculated in proportion to the areas from which the areas covered by the larger inner waters have been excluded, while the areas given in the above table include the inner waters.
The proportion of wx^nien in the population varies, in the Russian pro- vinces, from 116-2 per each 100 men (Kaluga) and 119-4 (Tver) to 87*4 (St. Petersburg) and 89-8 (Taurida) — this disproportion being due to the male population temporarily moving to the capitals or to the shipbuilding centres during the winter. The average proportions are : —
Russian Provinces, 102*8 Avomcn for 100 men ; Poland, 98-6 women fur 100 men; Finland, 102-2 Avomen for 100 men; Caucasus, 89-5 women for 100 men; Siberia, 93-7 women for 100 men; The Steppes, 89-4 for 100 men; Turkestan and Transcaspian, 83 '0 women for 100 men ; Russian Empire, 100 women for 100 men.
The ethnical composition of the population will be shown when the results of the recent census have been worked out. In the meantime, the following rough estimates concerning the Russian population of the Empire may be computed f rom Rittich's p ercentage figures, (see Year-Book 1885, j). 416; : —
Groups of Provinces
Population
Great Russians
1 Little Russians
Northern and Baltic
6,572,000
3,600,000
Lithuania, White Russia and
South-west Russia
19,719,000
200,000 (6,800,000)
White Russians)
8,810,000
Little Russia and Don
12,750,000
4,000,000
8,400,000
Central Russia .
28,082,000
26,100,000
1,000,000
Volga Provinces
9,923,000
6,100,000
3,800,000
Xorth-east Russia
9,913,000
7,400,000
100,000
Southern Provdnces .
8,222,000
1,300,000
4,300,000
European Russia
94,081,000
49,700,000
(7,000,000
White Russians)
26,400,000
Caucasia, about
9,724,000
3,000
,000
Siberia, ,,
5,731,000
5,000
,000
Turkestan, Transcaspian, and
Kirghiz Stoppes, about . , j
1
7,590,000
1,000
,000
For other ethnical elements of the population, see Year-book 1885, p. 416. The populations of the Caucasus appear as follows, according to recent investigations : —
Jews . . 50,992 Kartvelians : — Georgians . 310,499 Mingrelians 200,092 Imeretes . 373,141 Pshaves, Khev- zurs. . 20,079 Western Moun- taineers . 188,083
3 N
Russians
. 1,915,614
Poles .
8,910
Germans
23,613
Greeks
42,562
Iranians :-
—
Ossets
. 127,430
Persians,
Tat is.
Talysh]
ns 132,792
Kurds
10,097
Armenians
. 803,696
Eastern Moun-
taineers .
707,619
Tartars . 1
,027,828
Turks
75,980
Turcomans,
&c. Northern
44,046
Tartars . Kalmuks .
126,000 10,707
