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130 II. TH B SWEDISH PEOPLE.
Table 26. Total emigration and immigration, 1851/95.1
Ages.
Emigrants.
Total.
Men. Women.
Immigrants.
Total.
Men. Women.
Excess of emigration. ’
Total.
Men.
0/15..........154,487 78,201 76,286 22,060 11,121 10,939 132,427 67,080 65,347
15/20..........150,872 81,413 69,459 8,039 3,856 4,183 142,833 77,557 65,276
20/25..........258,713 168,838 89,885 23,204 13,254 9,950 235,509 155,574 79,9351
25/30..........151,405 1 94,747 56,658 25,327 15,271 10,056 126,078 79,476 46,602
30/35..... 77,457 45,799 31,658 18,564 I 11,885 6,679 58,8931 33,914 24,979
35/40..... 44,535 26,123 18,412 11,006 7,391 3,615 33,529 18,732 14,7971
40’45.... 26,428 15,085 11,343 6,306 4,440 1,866 20,122 10,645 9,477
45/50..... 18,319: 10,030 8,289 4,049 2,748 1,301 14,270 7,282 6,988
50/<u..... 33,331 1 15,650 17,686 6,609 4,182 2,427 26,7271 11,468 15,259,
Total 915,552 535,876 379,676 125,164 74,148 51,016 790,388 461,728 328,660
Of these: ]
Children» 154,487 78,201 76,286 22,660 11,121 10,939 132,427 67,080 65,347!
Married. 156,7641 83,808 72,956 31,704 18,210 13,464 125,060 ; 65,568 59.492
Single’.. 004,301 373,867 230,434 7I,400| 44,787 26,613 532,901 |,329,080 203,8211
On the whole, the emigration has risen above the average frequency, for
the whole population, only in the ages 15/35. The consequence of this will be
that the growth of these age-groups is slower than that of the rest of the
population — even if they do not actually diminish — and that their numerical
importance becomes smaller in proportion to the total population. A natural
consequence of this, again, is a relative diminution also in the number of births,
so that the group 0/5 years also belongs to the list of those whose relative
numbers are declining. The age-groups 5/15 and 35/w are more favoured,
especially the age-group 50/w. The effect of all this upon the composition of
the population according to age, is shown plainly by Table 13, page 112.
During the period 1851/95, about 768,000 persons have betaken
themselves to transoceanic lands, by far the greatest proportion of
whom have emigrated to the United States of America4, whilst 148,000
persons have sought homes in European countries. Of the latter
number of emigrants 48,000 have gone to Norway; 63,000 to Denmark;
12,000 to Finland and Russia; 20,000 to Germany, and but 5,000 to
other European countries. The annual number of emigrants to the
neighbouring lands is almost constantly about 5,000 persons; of those
who go to Norway and Denmark there return about 50 %. The
immigration from Finland is even greater than the emigration thither.
But only 6 % emigrant Swedes have returned from the United States,
though the per cent has risen during the last few years; thus, in
1894/99 a total of 69,870 Swedes emigrated to the United States, while
31,027 persons immigrated from the United States to Sweden.
1 With approximate additions for unreported emigration and immigration. For 88,073
emigrants and 20,861 immigrants the distribution according to age and civil conditions is
approximative. — 1 Below 15 years of age. — s Widows and widowers included. — 4 It
may here be remarked that when, of låte years, the number of Swedish immigrants to
America has been stated at a higher figure than is warranted by Swedish statistics
respecting emigration, this is accounted for by the fact that the higher figures include a
great number of emigrants from Finland, who pass through Sweden.
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