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AUSTillA
(Bezirk). They cousist of the representatives (1) of great estates, (2) of the most highly taxed industries and trades, (3) of the towns and markets, (4) of the rural communes (Landgemeinden). Members are elected for three years, in Galicia for six. A committee of this body (called the Bezirksausschuss , administers the current affairs of the district.
Area and Population.
I. Progress and Present Condition. The following is the civil population of Austria at the last 4 censuses
Population
Absolute increase
1880 1890 1900 1910
21,981,821 23,707,906 25,921,671 28,324,940
1,764,290 1,726,085 2,213,765 2,403,269
Yearly increase per cent.
0-76
0-76 0-90 0-93
Statistics of the provinces of Austria :-
Area :
Census Population, Dec. 31
Popula-
Provinces
English square
tion iier sq. mile
miles
1900
Total
1910
1910
Male
Female
Total
Lower Austria .
7,658
3,100.493
1,726,249
1,805,565
3,531,814
461
Upper Austria .
4,628
810.246
422,822
430,184
853,006
184
Salzburg .
2,768
192,763
107,660
107,077
214,737
78
Styria.
8,662
1,856.494
719,960
724,197
1,444,157
167
Carinthia .
3,9S9
367,324
198,260
197,9^0
396,200
99
Carniola
3,845
508,150
250,577
275,418
525,995
137
Coast land .
3,07y
756,54«
456,530
437,267
893,797
290
Tyrol and Vorarlbcrg
11,312
981,949
547,800
544,221
1,092,021
97
Bohemia
20.065
6,318,697
3,307,693
3,461,855
6,769,548
337
Moravia
8,583
2,437,706
1,269,432
1,352,839
2,622,271
306
8ilesia
1,988
680,422
369,998
386,951
756.949
381
Galicia
.30,321
7,315,939
3,938,315
4,087,360
8,025,675
265
Bukowina ,
4,033
730,195
395,963
404,135
800,098
198
Dalmatia .
4,956
593,784 26,150,708
322,763 14,084,022
322,903 14,537,912
645,666
180
Total
115,882
28,571,934
247
Ethnical elements on the basis of language
1910
1910
German .
9,950,266
Slovene .
1,252,940
Bohemian, Moravian,
Servian and Croatian
783,334
and Slovak .
6,435,983
Italian and Ladin .
768,422
Polish .
4,967,984
Roumanian
275,115
Rutheiiian
3,518,854
Magyar .
10,974
