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DEMOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN.
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the chief occupation of the people, the proportion is only 21 % of the
whole population, a figure which, while it is greater than that of
every East-European country, exceeds only that of Finland in countries
belonging to the West of Europe. In 1900, the whole urban population
of Sweden amounted to 1,104,000 souls, whilst the country districts
boasted a total of 4,032,000 inhabitants.
We have no statistics of the population of our towns of an earlier
date than 1805. Table 10 (next p.) shows the development since that date.
Stockholm. Vasa Bridge.
We thus see that the urban population has increased from being
scarcely 10 of the whole population to more than 21 An increase
of this proportion can first be noticed, however, in the decade
beginning 1841, after the abolition of the old guild-statutes (1846); since
then, the population of the towns of Sweden has increased at an
unusually quick rate — during the last generation by 24 °/oo annually,
while in the whole of Western Europe the rate of increase of the towns
is, for the same period, but about 15 °/oo. By the side of the old,
legally recognized towns, new urban centres are nowadays arising near
railway-stations, the larger factories, and places of trade and business,
etc., which, while they are in most cases, as yet, too unimportant to
be counted as towns, still form living nuclei of future centers of
population. The next generation will, in this way, doubtlessly see a
great increase in the urban population of Sweden.
Sweden. 7
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