AREA AND POPULATION.
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Germans .
9,000,000
Servians ....
1,470,000
Bohemians, Moravians anc 1
Bulgarians
25,000
Slovacks
6,600,000
Magyars ....
5,450,000
Poles . .
2,200,000
Italians (inclusive of Latins
Ruthenians
2,800,000
and Friauls) .
1,050,000
Slovenians
1,210,000
Eastern-Romans
2,700,000
Croats
1,360,000
Members of other races
1,430,000
At the last census, the Germans constituted 38 per cent, of the inhabitants in the Cisleithan part of the empire, 18 per cent, in the Transleithan part, and nearly 5 per cent, in the district of the Military Frontier. The people of the Slavonian races formed 49 per cent, of the population in the Cisleithan, and 16 per cent, in the Transleithan division. The race third in numbers, the Magyars, constituted 38 per cent, of the population of the kingdom of Hungary, -^ per cent, of the district of the Military Frontier, and
per cent, of the Cisleithan part of the empire.
Trade and Industry.
The total commerce of Austria, comprising imports and exports, as well as transit, for the whole of the empire, except the province of Dalmatia — not within the Imperial line of customs — was of the average value of 816,000,000 florins, or 81,600,000/. in the three years 1866-68. The imports averaged 294,000,000 florins, or 29,400,000/. ; the exports 407,000,000 florins, or 40,700,000/., and the transit 115,000,000 florins, or 11,500,000/. These values only represented merchandise, and did not include bullion and coin im- ported annually to the value of 26,000,000 florins, or 2,600,000/., and exported to the amount of 39,000,000 florins, or 3,900,000/.
The principal article of import into the Austrian empire is raw cotton, the declared value of it amounting to 33,046,866 florins, or 3,304,686/. in 1867, and to 35,835,796 florins, or 3,583,579/. in 1868. Of articles of export the chief are corn and flour, together of the declared value of 79,854,680 florins, or 7,985,468/. in 1867, and of 103,014,494 florins, or 10,301,449/. in 1868. The subjoined statement gives the value of the imports and exports during each of the years 1867 and 1868 : —
1867
1868
Imports .... Exports ....
Florins 303,649,481 424,324,041
Florins 396,935.079 439,820,769
Total .
727,973,522
836,755,848
Nearly two-thirds of the whole commerce of the Austrian empire, both as regards imports and exports, is carried on with Germany.
