AREA AND POPULATION
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Tho following table shows the estimated area and population of the various provinces on December 31, 1897 : —
Estimated
Population
Departments
Area, square
Poi)ulation
per
1897
square mile
Montevideo ....
256
264,838
1034-5
Can^lones
1,833
68,553
37-3
Colonia
2,192
41,021
18-7
Salto .
4,863
37,586
7-7
Soriano
3,560
36,369
10-2
Paysandu
5,115
40,431
7-9
San Jose
2,687
34,441
12-8
Florida .
4,673
36,024
7-4
Durazno
5,525
30,064
5-4
Ceno-Largo .
5,753
29,909
5-2
Tacuarembo .
8,074
27,929
3-4
Minas .
4,844
28,401
5-8
Rocha .
4,280
25,976
6-0
Maldouado .
1,584
23,086
14-5
Artigas
4,392
21,716
4-9
Treinta y Tres
3,686
22,615
6 1
Rivera .
3,790
18,767
4-9
Rio Negro .
3,269
24,369
7-4
Flores .
1,744
15,390
8-7 11-4
Total
72,110
827,485
To the total, the official estimate adds 13,240 for omissions in the number of immigrants, the population of the Republic being thus put at 840,725, or 117 per square mile. Of the population 52 per cent, are male, and 48 per cent, female. Seventy per cent, of the population is native-born. Of the remainder the gi-eater number are Spaniards, Italians, French, Brazilians, and Argentines. The number of English and Germans is small. The Spaniards and French are mostly Basques. Montevideo, the capital, has a population of about 249,251.
The following table gives the number of births, deaths, and marriages for five years. The births and deaths include still births : —
Years
1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
Total Births
28,119 29,292 31,158 31,895 27,763
Still-Births Marriages > Deaths
731 806 755 894 791
3,394 3,852 4,154 4,073 2,746
13,282 14,649 12,874 13,670 13,013
Surplus of Births over Deaths
14,837 14,642 18,284 18,225 14,750
Of the total births in 1897, 6,094, or 22-6 per cent., were illegitimate.
