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there were 4.55 persons in each household in Norway in 1891.
The corresponding figure for England and Wales was 4.73, for
Germany 4.66 and for Sweden 3.80.

The average number of inhabitants to each dwellinghouse
amounted in 1891 to 6.50 for the whole kingdom, and for the
country districts and the towns separately, 5.78 and 11.85
respectively. While the density of our population has risen in several
of our towns, in consequence of the increasing taste for a
barracklike [[** sjk om bindestrek]] manner of building, the country districts in this respect
exhibit a contrary tendency. The number of inhabitants per house
was greatest in Kristiania, viz. 22.90 (as against 21.90 in 1876), while
the next largest Norwegian town, Bergen, had only 13.10 (11.70 in
1876), and Trondhjem 11.90 (12.20 in 1876). In the country districts,
the difference between the various parts is comparatively small.

DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO SEX.



If we compare the distribution of the Norwegian population
according to sex, with the corresponding conditions in other
countries, we find that there is a greater preponderance of the female
sex in our land than in most of the European countries, and also
that of late years, this preponderance has been on the increase.
In the year 1891, the Norwegian women numbered 1,035,006, as
against 965,911 men, or an excess of 69,095 women; while in 1876,
it only amounted to 42,688. In 1891, there were 1072 women to
a thousand men, as against 1048 in 1876. If the proportion at
an earlier date be investigated, it will be found that according to
the census of 1801, the excess of women was 8.90 per cent, but
that owing to a diminished death-rate, it fell to an average of 4 %
during the years 1835—1870. Since that time, emigration has
once more considerably increased the relative number of women.

The average proportion of strength between the two sexes for
Europe in the beginning of the nineties is calculated at about 1021,
while the other continents, in so far as particulars are
forthcoming, all exhibit an excess of the male sex. In Sweden, in 1894,
the proportion was 1061, in Denmark, in 1893, 1053. Among the
countries of Europe, only Portugal has a larger excess of women
than Norway, namely, 1084 women to every 1000 men.

There is, moreover, considerable difference in the proportion
between the rural districts — which in 1891 had an average of
1058 women to every 1000 men —, and the towns, where the sexes

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