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POPOULATION ACCORDING TO SEX.
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Population according to sex.
At the close of 1913, Sweden possessed 2 756 946 inhabitants of the male
sex, and 2 881 637 of the female, giving a proportion of 1 045 women to
every thousand of men. The proportion for the whole of Europe is 1 027
women to every thousand of men; for Western Europe alone the figure
rises to 1 035. The excess of women is thus unusually large in Sweden,
and is exceeded only in Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland, Portugal,
and — possibly — Spain.
In Sweden the difference was even greater in former times. In 1750
there were 1 129 women to every thousand men — the greatest
disproportion ever observed in Europe. How the condition of things has since
developed may be seen — in groupings according to age — from Table 18.
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 checked by emigration, which,
during the fifty years 1861—1910, occasioned a loss of 496 000 men, as
compared with but 417 000 women. 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 remained
almost stationary; this is a fact that must be ascribed to the remarkable
circumstance that, since the commencement of emigration, the distribution
of both births and deaths, between the sexes, has been much more
favourable than before for the male sex.
The distribution of the population according to sex shows marked
variations in different districts of the country, and sharp differences in town
and country. The males preponderate in Norrland and Dalarne, and also
in the rural parts of the läns of Västmanland and Södermanland and in
certain limited areas. In 1910, the proportion of women to 1 000 men for
country districts in general amounted to 1 010; while for the towns the
corresponding figure was 1 166, and for Stockholm itself 1 223.
The relative proportion of the sexes is of greatest importance in the
ease of unmarried persons of middle age. Of unmarried men between the
Table 18. Number of Women per 1 000 Men.
\ Annually Total 0—15 years 15-20 years 20—25 years 25—SO years 30—35 years 3S—40 years 40—15 years 45—55 years 55—65 years 66—CD years
1750 1129 1006 1027 1139 1 122 1106 1099 1148 1209 1457 1520
1751- -75 . 1107 1005 1037 1137 1138 1122 1102 1116 1174 1291 1501
1776- -00 . 1077 996 1033 1097 1 108 1087 1081 1077 1123 1 202 1260
1801- -25 . 10S6 998 1017 1079 10H8 1104 1114 1134 1 154 1231 1394
1826- -50 . 1071 997 1011 1028 1034 1046 1066 1101 1 169 1286 1482
1851- -75 . 10151 989 1003 1026 1054 1065 1069 1105 1121 1220 1439
1876- -00 . 1060 976 979 1017 1062 1102 1115 1119 1140 1167 1295
1910 1046 965 968 1013 1035 1045 1062 1 111 1 144 1162 1265
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