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SWEDEN AND NORWAY:—SWEDEN


Male Female
Unmarried 1,431,843 1,460,664
Married 795,463 804,613
Widowed 88,580 199,930
Divorced 1,301 2,587

The following table shows the leading occupations of the people in 1890, including the families and dependents of those directly employed:—

Agriculture, &c.:
Landed and farm proprietors 1,229,601
Farmers, overseers, &c. 250,784
Planters, &c. 400,623
Crofters, cottagers, &c. 494,421
Dairy-keepers 11,882
Gardeners 15,793
Fisheries 34,246
Mining and metal works 219,578
Timber works 96,323
Various manufactures 533,119
Trade and locomotion 309,957
Officials and military 207,276
Learning and literature 43,383
Medicine, &c. 18,817
Owners, pensioners, &c. 307,550
Mechanics, servants, &c 555,297
Various 56,271

II. Movement of the Population.

1. Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
Year Total living
Births
Of which
Illegitimate
Stillborn Marriages Deaths
exclusive of
Stillborn
Surplus of
Births over
Deaths
1891 135,516 13,718 3,556 27,940 80,603 54,913
1892 129,622 13,595 3,363 27,338 85,894 43,728
1893 131,729 13,616 3,436 27,219 81,027 50,702
1894 131,409 13,958 3,457 27,851 79,444 51,965
1895 134,599 14,438 3,535 28,728 74,368 60,231
2. Emigration.
Year Immigrants Total
Emigrants
To America
1890 6,030 34,212 29,487
1891 6,114 42,776 36,134
1892 6,511 45,504 40,990
1893 7,377 40,869 37,321
1894 10,425 13,358 9,529
1895 8,528 18,955 14,982

III. Principal Towns.

The population of Sweden is mainly rural. In 1871 the town population numbered only 551,106, and in 1896, 1,030,367, showing an increase of 87 per cent., or nearly five times the rate of the general average of the Kingdom.

The following towns had more than 10,000 inhabitants at the end of 1897:—

Stockholm 288,602
Göteborg 120,552
Malmö 55,500
Norrköping 38,354
Gefle 26,400
Karlskrona 23,196
Helsingborg 22,818
Upsala 22,706
Jönköping 21,439
Örebro 18,687
Lund 15,791
Sundsvall 17,158
Halmstad 17,100
Landskrona 13,481
Linköping 13,586
Eskilstuna 12,971
Kalmar 12,459
Borås 12,371
Söderhamn 10,775
Karlstad 10,511
Kristianstad 10,079