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lif) II. THE SWEDISH PEOPLE.
Table 17. Summary of Movement of Population by Läns, 1901—10}
Per thousand of mean population annually
L ii n s
marriages living births deaths surplus of births [-emigrants immigrants increase-] {+emi- grants immi- grants in- crease+}
Stockholm citv .... 8-71 24 00 15-71 8-35 5-16 3-39 12-89
Stockholm län .... 5’55 26-31 15-07 11-24 1-71 0-88 28 73
Uppsala....... 5-99 23-92 1530 862 1-23 024 343
Södermanland..... 5-93 24-74 1416 10-58 1-70 0-52 653
Östergötland..... 5 97 24-54 14-38 1016 381 0 89 5 14
Jönköping ...... 5*63 24-59 13-88 10-71 5-36 1-20 5-51
Kronoberg...... 5’22 23-94 1507 887 6-75 2-08 — 0 73
Kalmar....... 5’44 23-81 15-54 8 27 7-01 1-98 0-22
Gottland...... 6’24 21 40 15-94 5-46 4-16 1-84 4-54
Blekinge....... 5 57 26 72 1603 10-69 6-28 2 36 2-06
Kristianstad..... 5-Cl 24-21 15-67 8-54 4-60 1-80 4-13
Malmöhus...... 6 53 26-00 14-60 1*00 4 21 2-10 1109
Halland....... 5-40 25-30 15 40 9 90 8-22 2-88 385
Göteborg och Bohus . . 636 2715 15-36 11-79 462 2-41 12-32
Älvsborg ....... 512 22-98 1503 7-95 6-36 226 2-90
Skaraborg...... 5’27 21-63 14-35 728 410 1-os 009
Värmland...... 5’50 23-71 15 15 b’56 8-34 2 61 3-29
Örebro........ 5’78 24-43 13 65 10-78 3 83 0 91 603
Västmanland..... 6’00 25-28 14-19 11-09 1 68 0-45 5-10
Kopparberg...... 6-02 26-71 14-91 11-80 4-59 0 70 7-18
Gävleborg...... 5’86 28-08 14-36 13-72 4-88 0 68 639
Västernorrland .... 5 88 29-65 14 56 1509 512 0-97 7-54
Jämtland...... 5-70 2715 14-01 1314 7-15 1-01 5-90
Västerbotten..... <>•24 31-76 14 08 17-68 374 0-48 11-53
Norrbotten...... 644 37-20 16-46 20-74 5-60 1-22 17-68 1
Country ....... Towns ........ Kingdom as a whole 5-58 7-36 25-86 25-48 14-96 14-66 10-90 10-82 485 4-85 1-33 2 44 3 01 21-12
(JOO 25 77 14-89 10-88 4 85 1-59 7 27
included in groups which were already unusually swollen from the beginning,
and which, moreover, had reached such an age, on the rise of the emigration
movement that they escaped the decimation which reduced the numbers of those
included in the younger groups of the population in a proportionately higher
degree. It may also be mentioned that the same older groups now include those
persons who were the first in our land to benefit by that great boom to
humanity, called vaccination. Several conditions have thus united to give to
the country, for the moment, a disproportionately numerous population in the
group including the highest ages — a circumstance which obviously contributes
to increase the by no means welcome burden of poor-relief. Also the groups
5 —15 years have been unduly swollen, although, on account of the decline of
the birthrate, this excess is beginning to disappear. This is an economical burden,
on account of the great claims laid by the last named age upon the resources
of parents or of the community for instruction and education. A redundance
of school-children and of old people, and a paucity of able-bodied persons —
that has long been the condition of the population in Sweden, and it is
doubtlessly a noteworthy weakness, and one with which economic development
has to contend.
1 In some regards, the relative numbers for the period 1901—1910 are to be considered
as preliminary.
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