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DEMOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN.
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of Europe is, according to the newest statistics, 1,026 women to every
thousand of men; in Western Europe especially, the proportion of women
rises to 1,034. The excess of women is thus unusually large in Sweden,
and is exceeded only in the countries of Norway, Scotland, Portugal,
and — possibly — Switzerland.
In Sweden the difference was even greater in former times. In
1750 there were 1,129 women to every thousand of men — the greatest
disproportion ever noted in Europe. How this condition of things has
since developed may be seen — grouped according to age — by Table 14.
Table 14. Number of women per 1,000 men.
Average for the years. Total. 0/15 years. 15/20 years. 20/25 years. 25/30 years. 30/36 years. 35/40 years. 40/45 years. 45/55 years. 55/65 years. 65 m years.
I In 1750.... 1,129 1,006 1,067 1,139 1,122 1,106 1,099 1,148 1,209 1,457 1,520
: 1751/75:.... 1,107 1,005 1,037 1,137 1,138 1,122 1,102 1,116 1,174 1,291 1,501
, 1776,00..........1,077 996 1,033 1,097 1,108 1,087 1,081 1,077 1,123 1,202 1,360
1801 25..........1,086 998 1,017 1,079 1,088 1,104 1,114 1,134 1,154 1,231 1,394
I 1826,50..........1,071 997 1,011 1,028 1,034 1,046 1,066 1,101 1,169 1,286 1,482
1851/75..........1,061 989 1,003 1,026 1,054 1,065 1,069 1,105 1,121 1,220 1,439
1876 95..... 1,061 977 1 983 1,025 1,068 1,104 1,116 1,121 1,135 1,167 1,315
, In 1895.... 1,05» 974 969 1,010 1,061 1,097 1,133 1,116 1,146 1,174 1,269
With the exception of the years of war, the period between 1750
and 1865 saw, on the whole, a restoration of the balance in numbers
of the two sexes, but this movement has since been broken off by
emigration, which, during the forty-five years 1851/95, occasioned a loss of
462,000 men as compared with but 329,000 women. The fact that, in spite
of this great inequality in the numbers of the sexes in the matter of
emigration, the excess of women in the population of Sweden has not
increased but has been stationary, or at least nearly so, must be
ascribed to the remarkable circumstance that, after the commencement
of emigration, the division of the number of both births and deaths,
considered from the point of view of sex, has become much more
favourable as regards the male members of the population. Still more
peculiar is the fact that this change is most marked in that part of
the country from which emigration was greatest.
The relative proportion of sexes is of importance especially with
reference to unmarried persons of middle age. Of unmarried men
between the ages 20/50 years, there were in Sweden, at the end
of 1895, 390,862, and of unmarried women between the ages of 17/45
years, 502,073. According to this grouping, we obtain the proportion
of no less than 1,285 women to one thousand men. These figures are
calculated as having been no less than 1,442 to a thousand, for the
years 1751/75. In this case too an improvement has taken place, but
one which also was interrupted by the rise of emigration. Making
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