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FRANCE
The foreigners (natives of Europe) residing in France in 1896 numbered 1,027,491, and constituted 2*66 per cent, of the aggregate population. The numbers in 1891 were : —
Belgians
Italians
Germans
Swiss
Spaniards
English
Luxembourgeois
465,860
Russians .
286,042
Austro-Hungarian
83,333
Miscellaneous .
83,117
77,736
Total (1891)
39,687
„ (1886)
31,248
„ (1851)
14,357 11,909 36,922
1,130,211
1,126,531
379,289
Of the total in 1891, 420,842 were born in France. The number of French citizens abroad in 1891 was 517,000.
According to the results of the census of 1891, the actual population according to occupations was as follows : —
Occupations
Employers, &c.
Employees,
Clerks,
Overseers,
&c.
Workmen
Dependents
in Household
Domestic Servants
Total
Agriculture . Industry Transport Commerce Public Force Administration . Professional . Private Fortune .
Total . Unclassed
Total populatio
3,570,016 3,021,659 62,501 879,969 558,186 202,205 420,133 956,729
75,400
207,222
138,707
378,318
781
7,620
78,024
13,021
2,890,183
3,319,217
245,979
480 344
2,908
30,348
29,819
106,061
10,216,749 4,814,985 730,040 1,983,441 141,611 426,816 449,500 781,115
683,540
169,477
22,106
239,424
12,138
32,526
137,397
312,824
17,435,888 9,532,560 1,199,333 3,961,496 715,624 699,611 1,114,873 2,169,750
7,671,398
899,099
7,104,859
19,544,257 1,692,432
1
36,829,135 1,304,250
D (exclusive c
f infants, cer
tain school
i, &c.)
38,133,385
II. Movement of the Population. BirthSj Deaths, and Marriages.
Year
Marriages
Living Births
Illegitimate Children
Deaths
Surplus of
Births over Deaths
Still-born
1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
287,294 286,662 282,918 290,171 291,462
874,672 855,388 834,173 865,586 859,107
76,562 76,451 73,278 76,278 75,989
867,526 815,620 851,986 771,886 751,019
7,146 39,768
-17,813 93,700
108,088
42,394 42,046 41,572 42,054 42,249
The movement of the population is very unequal over France, and from year to year the deaths are in excess of the births in from 32 to 60 depart- ments out ol 87.
The birth-rate for all France in 1896 was 227 ; in 1897 22-4 per 1,000 inhabitants. The death-rate in 1896 was 20*2; in 1897 19-9 per 1,000 in- habitants. In 1895 the number of deaths exceeded that of births ; in 1896, owing to the increase in the number of births, as well as to the decrease in
