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II. TH B SWEDISH PEOPLE.
Table 10.
Urban and rural population.
At the end of, The whole
the years j population.
Of this:
Rural
population.
Urban
population.
Urban
pop-
in %.
Years.
Total.
Rural [-population.-]
{+popu-
lation.+}
Urban [-population.-]
{+popu-
lation.+}
1805 ..................2,412,77-2 I 2,180,715 232,057 9-62 Annual <ner0/«-
1820 ................2,584,690 2,330,798 253,892 9 82 1806/20 ...... 460 4-45 6-01
1840 ..................3,138,887 ; 2,835,204 303,683 9 67 1821/40 ...... 9 75 9*84 8-99
1860 ..................3,859,728 3,425,209 434,519 11 26 1841/60 ...... 1039 950 18-07-
18S0 ..................4,565,668 3,875,237 690,431 15-12 1861/80 ...... 843 6-19 23-42
1900 ..................5,136,441 4,032,490 1,103,951 21-49 1881/00 ...... " 5 91 199 23-74
At the close of the year 1900, Sweden possessed two towns of over
100,000 inhabitants; one of somewhat more than 50,000; seven of
between 20,000 and 50,000 souls; and twelve with a population varying
between 10,000 and 20.000. The number of the inhabitants in each of
these towns at the beginning, middle, and close of the 19th century,
may be seen by Table 11.
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is the principal manufacturing
and import-town of the country. It is located at the point where
the waters of Lake Mälaren find their way into the Baltic, that
is, at the entrance to the extensive low-lands of Central Sweden.
This location of the capital of the kingdom was a most natural one
in former days, when the Baltic was the chief scene of Sweden’s
peaceful or warlike expeditions, and at a time when the greater part
of the shores of the same sea formed Swedish possessions. But,
now-a-days, when the trans-Baltic lands no more belong to this country, and
when the world of commerce has moved westwards, the position of
Stockholm is, in certain respects, not so advantageous as before, a
Table 11. Population of the cities of Sweden with more than 10,000 inhab*
Cities.
1805. I 1850.
I
1900.
Cities.
1805.
1850.
1900.
Stockholm............72,652 93,070 300,624
Gothenburg..........12,490 26,084 130,619
Malmö ....................4,932 13,087 60,857
Norrköping..........9,428 16,916 41,008
Gefle ..........................5,930 9,261 29,522
Helsingborg.... 1,955 4,140 24,670
Karlskrona..........10,553 14,097 23,955
Jönköping............2,964 6,008 23,143
Uppsala................4,897 6,952 22,855
Örebro........................3,242 5,177 22,013
Lund..........................3,224 6,709 16,621
Borås..........................1,792 2,733 15,837
Halmstad..............1,324 2,761 15,362
Snndsvall..............1,471 2,837 14,831
Linköping............2,915 5,240 14,552
Landskrona .... 3,776 4,139 14,399
Eskilstuna............1,530 3,961 18,663
Kalmar....................3,656 6,634 12,715
"V esteris..................2,953 3,780 11,999
Karlstad..................2,205 3,807 11,869
Söderhamn............1,435 1,757 11,258
Kristianstad ... 3,106 5,440 10,318
• Including the suburbs, Gothenburg has about 150,000 inhab.; Norrköping, nearly
50,000; Sundsvall and Eskilstuna, 20,000 each. — Of the smaller cities, not given in the
table, the following may be here mentioned, with their population at the end of 1900,
viz.: Falnn 9,606 inhab., Luleà 9,484, Uddevalla 9,442, Visby 8,376, Hernösand 7,890, and
Motala (with suburbs) 6,000 inhabitants.
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