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DEMOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN. 10 L
Table 9. Communities of Sweden by density of population, 1895.
Communities grouped according to Area. (Water» excluded). Sq. km.» Population, 1895. Inhab. per sq. km.* In % of the entire
density of population. 1 Area. [-Population.-] {+Popula- tion.+}
Lees than 1 inhab. per sq. km.*............126,772 53,445 04 30-88 109
1-5 > ............93,833 835,438 3 22 82 479
5-20 > • » ............125,891 1,565,422 12 3062 3182
20-50 » > » ............57,624 1,618,845 28 14-01 32 91
I More than 50 » > > ............5,847 466,674 80 142 _948
Rural districts 409,967 3,939,824 10 99-70 80 09
1 Cities 1,228 979,436 798 080 1991
Total 411,19$ 4,»I»,2W | 12 100 100
A summary of the density of population in Sweden, for the year
1895, is given in Table 9. The figures are founded upon separate
calculations for each of the 2,400 country parishes of the kingdom.
Thus, it is seen that one-half of Sweden has less than 5 inh. per
sq. km., only about 300,000 persons dwelling in this part of the country.
The other half of Sweden possesses, on the contrary, about 4,800,000
inhabitants.
Urban and rural population.
A great difference exists, according to Swedish law, between town
and country communities as regards their state and local administration
and even as regards the administration of justice. Town privileges are
conferred by Government and are, at present, enjoyed by 93 places
in the kingdom.
Of these 93 towns there are 27 (with altogether, 35,315 inh.) in 1900, each
of which possesses fewer than 2,000 people, and which thus, according to general
statistical ideas, ought not to be counted as towns. As may be seen, however,
the whole population of these 27 small towns is so unimportant that it cannot
greatly affect a view of the total urban population of the country. A comparison
may, therefore, without any great difficulty, be made with the urban population
of other countries.
Amongst the places which are not, in law, recognized as towns, there are
a few which have a total population of more than 2,000 souls. Some of these
places are suburbs of the towns of Stockholm, Gothenburg, Norrköping,
Sundsvall, Eskilstuna, and Motala; others are what are called »köpingar» (boroughs),
which, from a legal point of view, are something between town and country, and,
finally, there are some industrial and business-places, of which Malmberget — in
Gellivare — and Trollhättan, with 7,000 inhab. each, are about the largest.
The total urban population of Europe is calculated as being about
33 % of the whole number of inhabitants, a figure which rises in Western
Europe to 45 % while it sinks to a little more than 15 % in the East of
the continent. In Sweden, where agriculture is and always has been
* A sq. kilom. — 0’886 sq. mile. One inhab. per sq. km. = 2’59 inhab. per sq. mile.
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