AREA AND POPULATION
577
The population of the lands now inehuied in the German Empire (without Heligoland) was 24,831,396 in 1816, and 31,589,547 in 1837, showing an average annual increase of nearly 1*3 per cent. The following table shows the actual increase in population at various periods, with the annual rate of increase per cent. The small increase in 1867-71 is explained by the intervention of the war with France.
Year
Increase
Annual Rate per cent.
Year
Increase
Annual Rate per cent.
1858 1867 1871 1875
5,371,195
3,220,083
970,171
1,668,568
0-75
0-97 0-61 1
1880
1885
1890
i 1895
2,506,701 1,621,643 2,570,680 2,851,431
1-14
0-7
1-07
112
The increase of population during 1890-95 was greatest in Keuss Younger Branch, Hamburg, Liibeck, Bremen, Saxony, Anhalt, Brunswick, and Reuss Elder Branch ; and least in Wiirttemberg and Waldeck.
The number of inhabited houses in 1890 was 5,790,689, and of households 10,617,923 (in 1895, 11,256,150). Of the total population in 1895, 49*9 per cent., in 1890 47*0 per cent, lived in towns of 2,000 inhabitants and above. Of every 100 inhabi- tants there lived in —
No.ofTowns
1885
No.ofTowns
1890
No.ofTowns
1895
Larfjje towns ^ .
21
9-5
26
12-1
28
13-9
Medium ,,
116
8-9
135
9-8
150
10-7
Small ,,
683
12-9
733
13-1
796
13-5
Country ,,
1,951
12-4
1,997
120
2,068
11-8
Other places
—
56-3
—
53-0
—
50-1
1 For the official signification of these names see p. 536.
Of the total population in 1895, 25,661,250 were males and 26,618,651 were females. In 1890 boys under 10 years of age numbered 5,993,681 ; girls, 5,966,226 ; men over 80 years of age numhercd 90,161 ; women, 119,289.
With respect to conjugal condition, the following was the distribution in 1890:—
_
Males
Females
Total
Unmamed ....
Married
Widowed
Divorced and separated
15,058,108
8,372,486
774,967
25,271
14,591,560
8,398,607
2,157,870
49,601
29,649,668
16,771,093
2,932,837
74,872
According to the occupation-census of June 14, 1895, the population of Germany was divided as in the table below. Of the total, 22,013,683 were actually engaged in the various occupation.s.
