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DEMOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN.
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Division of the population according to age.
The preceding pages have spoken of the total population of Sweden,
and of the division of this population over the area of the country, as
well as in the two classes of communities called town and country. If
we now proceed to the more specially demographical problems, the most
important point of view
which presents itself is
the one which stands
as the title of this
section — the division
of the population
according to age. Table
12 (next page) shows
the respective figures
for Sweden during the
last 150 years.
In Sweden, as in
Western Europe
generally, the group 0/15
thus claims about one
third of the population;
a proportion which has
not very materially
changed during the
lapse of time. The
group 15/50 has
reckoned (during the
period 1751/1875), on an
. average, 500,598
persons per million, being
thus quite up to the
normal proportion, but
since the rise of
emigration, these figures have diminished very considerably. During the
period of emigration, the group 50/w has risen from its normal sixth
part (166,458 persons per million, during the period 1751/1875) to quite
one fifth of the whole.
At present, the population of Sweden is divided according to age
in a very peculiar manner. An idea of this may be gathered from
Table 13 (page 112).
Both the great inferiority in numbers of the groups 0/5 and 20/50, and
the excess in numbers of the groups 5/20 and 50/w are exactly what might be
expected from the great emigration. The abnormal excess of numbers in the
The Park Slottsskog sparken in Gothenburg.
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