Ak£A AND POt>ULATION
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Area and Population. I. Progress and Present Condition.
Austria — exclusive of the Tiu-kish provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have been under the administration of Austria-Hungary since 1878, but have not as yet been formally incorporated with it — has an area of 115,903 English square miles, with a population at the census of December 31, 1890, of 23,895,413 or 206 per square mile. The following is the civil population of Austria at the three last cens^sus -.^^
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Population Absolute increase
Yearly increase per cent.
\ 1869
' 1880 1890
20,217,531 21,981,821 23,707,906
1,993,031 1,764,290 1,726,085
0-87 0-76 0-76
The following table gives the area, and total number of inhabitants (civil and military), of the various provinces of Austi'ia, after the returns of the censuses of December 31, 1880 and 1890 : —
Area :
Population, t)ec. 31, 1890
Popula-
Provinces
English square
Dec. 31,
1880
tion per sq. uiile,
miles
Male
Female
Total
1890
1 Lower Austl-i:t .
7,654
2,3;i0.621
1,307,913
1,353,886
2,661,799
347
Upper Austria .
4,631
7;VJ,620
388,762
397,069
785,831
169
1 Salzburg ,
2,767
163,570
85,948
87,562
173,510
02 •
1 Styria.
8,670
l,213,.^.y7
635,967
646,741
1,282,708
148
Carintliia .
4,005
348.730
176,473
184,535
361,008
91
Carnlola
3,856
481, 1M3
238,011
260,947
498,958
129
Coast land .
3,084
647,934
351,844
343,540
695,384
228
Tvrol and Vorarlberg
11,324
912,549
454,769
474,000
928,769
82
Bohemia
20,060
5,560,819
2,821,989
3,021,105
5,843,094
291
Moravia
8,583
2,153,407
1,087,340
1,189,530
2,276,870
264
Silesia
1,987
565,475
288,908
316,741
605,649
306
Galicia
30,307
5,958,907
3,260,433
3,347,383
6,607,816
218
Bukowina .
4,035
571,671
324,469
322,122
646,591
160
Dalmatia .
Total
1
4,940
476,101 22,144,244
266,303
261,123
527,426
100
115,903
11,689,129
12,206,284
23,895,413
206
The ethnical elements of the population on the basis of language were as follows in 1890 :—
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