AREA AND POPULATION
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II. Movement of the Population.
The following table shows the movement of the population of Empire during five years :—
the
Year
Marriages
398,775
401,234 408,066 414,218 432,107
Total Births
Stillborn
Illegitimate
Total Deaths
1,272,430 1,310,756 1,207,423 1,215,854 1,163,964
Surplus of Births
584,569 617,514 696,874 725,790 815,783
1892
1893 1894 1895 189G
1,856,999 1,928,270 1,904,297 1,941,644 1,979,747
61,028 62,555 63,092 64,366 64,998
169,668 176,352 178,298 176,271 185,359
Of the children born in 1896, 1,018,075 were boys, and 961,670 girls.
Emigration, which in recent years assumed larger proportions in Germany than in any other country in Europe, after declining for some time received a new impetus in 1880 and 1881. The number of emigrants in 1881, viz., 220,902, is the highest total yet reached in any one year. The following table shows the annual number of German emigrants for five years : —
Destination
Years
Average
Total
United States
Brazil
Other American Countries
Africa
Asia
Australia
1893
87,677
78,249
1,173
7,262
- 586
146
261
1894
40,964
35,902
1,288
2.638
760
151
225
1895
37,408
32,503
1,405
2.359
886
134
211
1896
33,8-24
29,007
1,001
2,152
1,346
144
174
1897
24,631
20,346
936
1,765
1,115
145
324
The great majority of the emigrants sail from German ports and Antwerp. In 1893-97, 6,573 embarked at Rotterdam or Amsterdam ; and in 1893-97, 10,067 at French ports, notably Havre. The emigrants of 1897 by way of German ports, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, comprised 12,972 males, 10,248 females. The number of families was 2,609, including 8,476 persons. During the 78 years from 1820 to 1897 the total emigration to the United States and other transmarine countries numbered about 5,250,000, and during the last twenty-seven years 2,429,413, of whom nearly nine-tenths to the United States, The number of emigrants to Brazil during the last twenty-seven years (1871-97) has been 50,381.
Of the emigrants in 1897 (not including those who sailed from French ports) the principal States sent as follows : —
Prussia
. 13,497
Saxony
950
Oldenburg
271
Bavaria .
. 2,638
Ilesso
468
Bremen
506
Wiirttemberg
. 1,401
Meek. -Sell wtrin
217
Alsace-Lorraine.
198
Baden
815
Hamburg .
1,449
In 1897, 64,419 emigrants other than Germans embarked at German ports.
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