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[[** Tabell forts. fra forrige s.]]
| | Dec. | 31, | 1865 ..... | 1,701,756 | inhabitants |
| Dec. | 31, | 1875 ..... | 1,813,424 | » |
| Jan. | 1, | 1891 ..... | 2,000,917 | » |
These figures refer to the domiciled population of Norway,
and are calculated from the specifications gathered in the
domiciles of the enumerated persons. When we add to these the
number of Norwegians that were abroad at the time of the census,
and subtract those persons temporarily in Norway, but with their
homes abroad, the population rises in 1891 to 2,004,102. The
domiciled population on the 1st Jan. 1897, is calculated to have
been about 2,110,000 persons.
The position our country occupies as a sea-faring country
par excellence, involves the necessity of a comparatively large
number of seamen being constantly outside the boundaries of the
country. The difference between the actual and the legal
population becomes thereby comparatively considerable. The former
amounted, in 1891, to 1,988,674 persons, thus 15,428 less than
the latter, of whom 14,945 were seamen, some with wives, children,
etc. Moreover, 3,429 other Norwegians were abroad on the census
day, while on the other hand, 2,946 of the persons in Norway
had their homes abroad.
The population of the kingdom present on the 1st Jan. 1897,
was calculated to be about 2,095,000 persons.
II. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE
POPULATION.
While Norway occupies rather more than 3 % of the total
area of Europe, her population amounts to only ½ % of the
population of the continent. It follows from this that the denseness
of the population of the country is considerably less than the
European average, and Norway is actually the most thinly
populated of the European kingdoms.
The area of Norway is 124,495 sq. miles, of which 4,955
sq. miles are occupied by lakes, etc. Leaving these out of
consideration, there were, in 1891, about 16.80 inhabitants to the sq.
mile, while the proportion when the whole area is taken into
account, would be about 16. The corresponding figure for
Finland was 16.50, and for Sweden 27.70 inhabitants per sq. mile. In
Denmark, on the other hand, in 1890, there were 147.60, and in
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