AREA AND POPULATION
781
Dates
Area ; sq. miles
207,765
Doiuiciled Population
Inhabitants per sq. mile
Annual Increase per 10,009 inhabits.
ISOl
27,349,003
131
[26,930,756]
[130]
—
1821
—
30,461,875
146
57
[20,871,176]
[144]
[55
1841
—
34,230,178
164
62
[33,400,864]
[161]
[58]
1861
212,659
37,386,313
176
37
[35,844,902]
[173]
[36]
1806
—
38,067,064
178
40
[36,495,489]
[176]
[36]
1872
207,054
36,102,921
174
—96^ [-17]!
1876
—
36,905,788
178
54
1881
—
37,672,048
182
41
1886
—
38,218,903
184
29
1891
—
38,342,948
185
6-5
1896
—
38,517,332
186
4-5
1901
—
38.961,945
188
—
1906
—
39,252,267
189
—
1911
—
39,601,509
1S9
—
1 Decrease.
In 1906, the foreign nationalities most numerously represented were English, 35,990 ; Belgians and Luxembourgeois, 310,433 ; German.s, 87,836 Austiians, 13,001; Swiss, 68,892; Italians, 377,638; Spaniards, 80,914 Russians, 25,605 ; others, 46,576 ; total, 1,046,885. In 1911 the total was 1,132,696.
The active population of 1906 was returned under the following occupa- tions : Fisheries, 78,000 ; agriculture and forestry, 8,777,053 ; mines and quarries, 281,027; manufacturing industries, 5,979,216; transport, &c., 887,337 ; commerce, 2,002,681 ; liberal professions, 483,179 ; domestic service, &;c., 1,012,232; public service (including the army), 1,220,154; total, 20,720,879, of whom 7,693,412 were of the female sex.
II. Movement of the Population. Births, Dcallis, and Mm^riages.
Living Births
Illegitimate
Surplus of
Year
Marriages
Living
Deaths
Bii-ths
Still-born
Births
over Deaths
1906
306,487
806,847
71,466
780,196
26,651
37,326
1907
314,061
772,681
71,075
791,752
-19,071
36,765
1908
315,641
792,178
70,413
744,135
+ 48,043
37,536
1909
307,687
769,565
67,505
754,957
+ 14,608
36,076
1910
307,710
774,390
66,978
702,972
+ 71,418
36,009
1911
307,788
742,114
—
776,983
-34,869
33,840
In 1911 the average birth rate for all France (living births) was 1"87 per cent, of population. The de|)artments in which the rate was highest were Finistere, 2-69 per 100 ; Pas-de-Calais, 2-62 per 100 ; Morbihan, 2-56 per 100. It was lowest in Gers, I "26; and Lot-et-Garonne, 1*34. The marriage rate in 1911 wati 1'55 percent., and the death rate 1 "96. In 1910 the living
