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per cent be compared with the corresponding proportion during
the years 1801 and 1845, the following table is produced:

	Under 30	From 30-60	Above 60	Total
1801 ....	58.40	32.70	8.90	100.00
1845 ....	61.60	29.80	8.60	100.00
1891 ....	59.40	29.40	11.20	100.00

These figures show changes that are not altogether without
importance in the composition of the population. It must not,
however, be forgotten, that the intermediate periods are of
considerable length, and that the enumerations here given show, to
some extent, the outside limits of the variation during the present
century. In 1845 the youngest, in 1801 the middle, and in 1891
the oldest group, was relatively more numerous than at some of
the other censuses, while the years 1801, 1891 and 1845 show the
minima of the groups during the same period.

The great increase in the number of old people during the same
period (from 9.20 % in 1876 to 11.20 % in 1891) is of a more chance
character, being accounted for by the great increase in the number
of births during the first few years after 1814. Compared with
other countries, the number of old people in Norway is very
great, exceeded by only a few countries, e. g. Sweden and France.

If we compare the composition of the Norwegian population
according to age in general, with corresponding conditions in other
countries, we find that the first 20 years are represented about
normally, but that the succeeding period, when the population is
in its most productive and useful age, is comparatively weaker in
numbers than in European countries generally. This condition is
most marked in the rural districts, where the relative number of
children and old people is greatest, while the number of young men
and women is comparatively greatest in the towns, a circumstance
which is more especially appreciable in Kristiania. This fact places
the productive power of the population in a more unfavourable
position than is the case in most other countries.

The total number of children under 15 years of age in 1891
was 712,435, of whom 363,164 were boys and 349,271 girls.
Compared with the domiciled population as a whole, this amounted
to 35.55 per cent, a proportion that to some extent corresponds
with the normal, and shows a certain advance since 1876, when
the proportion of children was 34.37 per cent.

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