AREA AND POPULATION
1273
Governments (Lan)
Area: English square miles
4,938
Population Dec. 31, 1910
Population Dec. 31, 1911
Pop. per
square mile 1911
Alfsborg
287,692
288,950
58-5
okaraborg Varraland
3,280 7,435
241,284 260,135
241,411 260,543
73-6 35-0
Orebr-o Vastmanland
3,498 2,625
207,021 155,920
208,626 157,145
59-6 59-9
Kopparberg .
11,522
233,873
235,437
20-4
Gafleborg
7,614
253,792
255,181
33-5
Vasternorrland .
9,837
250,512
253,315
25-8
Jamtland
1 19,712
118,115
119,262
6-1
Vasterbotten
1 22,754
161,366
162.694
7-2
Norrbotten .
- 40,870
161,132
163,130
4-0
Lakes Vanern, Vattern
, MJilaren,
Hjahnaren
•
3,516
—
—
—
Total .
•
172,876
5,522,403
5,561,799
32-2
111 1911 there were 2,718,638 males and 2,843,161 females. The growth of the population has been as follows : —
Year
Population
1840 1S80
3,138,887 4,565,668
Increase per ct. per annum
0-95
Year
Population
1900 1910
5,136,441 5,522,403
Increase i)er ct. per annum
0-71 0-72
With the exception of (1900) 22,138 Finns, 6,983 Lapps, and some thousands others, the Swedish population is entirely of the Scandinavian branch of the Aryan family.
In 1900 the foreign-born population numbered 35,627, of whom 5 107 r/n^ °V ^^^^,*ny' 6' 874 in Denmark, 7,978 in Norway, 6,644 in Finknd, 1,506 in Russia, 779 in the United Kingdom, and 5,130 in the United States.
ine population was divided as follow^ in 1900 :—
Unmarried Married .
Male
1,566,868 838,909
Female
1,566,668 847,252
Male
Female
Widowed Divorced
98,647 1,922
212,461 3,624
Leading occupations in 1900, including families and dependents :—
Agriculture, &c. :
Landed and farm proprietors
Farmers, overseers, &c.
Planters, &c.
Crofters, cottagers, &c.
Dairy-keepers
Gardeners Pi-sheries .... Mining and metal works.
1,179,669
275,148
352,205
495,655
18,329
19,107
33,944
319,683
I Timber works Various manufactures Trade and locomotion Officials and military Learning and litei-ature Medicine, &c. Owners, pensioners, Ac. Mechanics servants, Ac Various .
150,005
740,152
414,143
196,967
49,258
26,058
339,601
462,480
63,977
