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578

GERMAN EMPIRE

Place

Agricul- ture, Cattle

rearing, &c.

Forest- ry,

Hunt- ing,

Fish-

Mining,

Metal

Works,

and other

Indus-

Com- merce and Trade.

Do- mestic

and other Service

Pro- fessions

Without Profes- sion or Occupa- tion

i

Total

ing

tries.

31,490,315

Prussia. . . .

11,113,794

261,302 12,196,352

8,585,430

658,896

1 1,671,827,2,002,714

Bavaria . . .

2,601,712

45,953

1,793,541

564,585

45,329

294.748

483,308

5,779,176

Saxony ....

540,830

24,469

2,178,273

525.637

45,655

202,065

236,383

8,753,262

Wlirttemberg .

919,082

14,494

723,828

164,815

12,153

110,731

125,559

2,070,662

Baden ....

715,864

13,823

598,153

171,112

13,682

94,319

112,785

1,719,238

Hesse ....

366,619

5,800

394,294

123,412

16,396

66,972

59,154

1,032,147

Meckl.-Schwerin

283,269

12,330

156,107

58,586

16,244

38,952

46,021

606,459

Saxe- Weimar . .

124,894

3,846

131,971

32,293

3,807

19,478

22,871

889,155

Meckl.-Strelitz .

47,794

1,833

28,352

10,170

2,737

5,828

6,663

108,377

Oldenburg . .

168,820

2,066

118,788

39,852

3,921

16,129

19,488

369,014

Brunswick . .

118,336

7,075

197,695

52,641

4,675

24,897

30,412

435,731

Saxe-Meiningen .

68,269

4,961

115,570

20,108

2,752

11,675

9,612

232,942

Saxe-Altenburg .

47,463

1,484

91,518

18,143

2,708

7,821

9,559

178,696

S.-Coburg-Gotha

62,243

3,843

103,412

21,919

2,646

10,970

12,651

217,684

Anhalt ....

73,696

2,633

138,048

37,326

3,898

13,967

22,766

292,329

Sch.-Eudolstadt.

25,465

1,828

33,364

7,059

1,174

4,422

4,288

77,600

Schw.-Sondersh.

27,580

1,358

44,638

7,262

960

4,344

8,383

89,475

Waldeck . . .

30,504

666

17,741

4,876

451

3,615

3,235

61,088

Reuss-Greiz . .

9,574

643

45,121

6,464

466

2,136

2,248

66,647

Reuss-Schleiz .

23,922

1,950

76,339

14,103

1,295

5,784

5,885

129,228

Schaunib.-Lippe

11,901

1,128

19,037

3,452

575

2,648

2,530

41,266

Lippe ....

45,210

643

57,761

8,584

837

4,941

5,568

123,544

Lubeck . . .

8,663

730

32,808

23,503

3,394

5,924

7,793

82,815

Bremen . . .

11,333

296

89,544

58,267

2,486

14,974

14,496

191,396

Hamburg . . .

22,592

1,650

265,441

250,844

21,807

50,008

51,617

663,959

Alsace-Lorraine .

599,234

16,840

605,600

156,458

17,863

150,899

76,185

1,628,079

Total Empire .

18,068,668

432,644

20,253,241

5,966,846

886,807

2,835,014

3,327,069

51,770,284

The bulk of the German population is (on the basis of language) Teutonic ; but in Prussia, chiefly in the eastern provinces, there were in December, 1890, 2,922,475 Slavs (Poles, Masurians, and Cassubians), 117,637 Lithuanians, 65,254 Wends, 74,069 Moravians and Czechs; while throughout Prussia were 138,134 Danes, 40,124 Dutch, 10,972 Walloons, and 34,725 English, French, Swedish, &c. The total non-Germanic population was 3,403,390, or nearly 7 per cent, of the whole population

On December 2, 1895, Germany contained 486,190 persons born elsewhere, the birthplaces of whom were as follows : —

Belgium . . . 8,947 Denmark . . , 28,146 France . . . 19,619 Great Britain and Ireland 15,290

Switzerland. . . 44,875 Other European countries 3,316

Italy .

22,693

Luxemburg

11,755

Netherlands

50,743

Austria-ITungarv

222,952

Russia and Fiidnnd

26,559

Sweden

8,937

Norway

2,154

Total Europe United States Other States

465,986

15,788

4,416

Total extra-European . 20,204 Total foreign residents 486,190

lu 1890 the number of foreign residents was 500,595.