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II. TUB SWEDISH PEOPLE.
14-4 % were entered into. These differences were more pronounced in former
times, and nowadays are found more in the country than in towns.
The frequency of marriage has risen more in towns than in rural districts.
In the different produces of Sweden it has displayed rather great variations.
In general it has been higher in North Sweden, where the timber-trade offers
many opportunities for work at high wages, but this local difference now seems
to be on the road to be equalized.
Births.
As may be seen from Table 10, the number of living births, which, in
the years 1751—75, amounted to 34*44 a/oo of the population annually, has
since that date almost uninterruptedly declined so that, for the period
1901—10, the figures are only about 25*77 °/oo-
The reasons for a diminution of births are really threefold. Firstly,
at present the productive ages find an abnormally low representation
in Sweden, obviously owing to emigration. It appears from Table 23 that,
during the years 1751—75, to every million inhabitants more than 113 000
married women were below the age of 45, and lately the corresponding
figures do not reach 88 000. Hence it is no wonder that the number of
births is not relatively the same as before. Add to this the second reason,
that the number of new marriages has remained for several decades on a
low level. Thirdly and finally, the fecundity of marriage has, in recent
times, shown a consistent tendency to fall.
Table 24 indicates an historical survey of the number of births and
the fecundity at different ages, the only one of its kind. that can he
produced in the vital statistics of any country.
Among the most remarkable features in Table 24 is to be noted the
important increase of matrimonial fecundity shown between the ages 35^45,
during the period 1826—1875. The circumstance clearly depends upon
the retardation of marriage which prevailed during a great part of that
time. The table moreover shows very clearly that, except within the specified
Table 23. Relative Number of Women bearing Children
Annually Per 1 million inhab. [-Mothers,-] {+Moth- ers,+} 0/uo Per 1 million inhab. [-Mothers,-] {+Moth- ers,+} o/ou Ter 1 million inhab. [-Mothers,-] {+Moth- ers,+} %o
Women, 20—45 years Women bearing children Married women, 15—45 years Mothers of legit, children [-Unmarried women-] {+Unmar- ried wo- men+} 20— 45 years Mothers of illegitim, children
1751-75 . . 189 729 34 783 183-3 113 637 33 872 298-3 77 946 911 11-7
1776-00 . . 191 676 33 479 174-7 110 416 32 017 290-0 82 909 1462 17-6
1801—25 . . 188 107 33 246 176-7 108 858 30 967 284-5 80 457 2 279 28-3
1826—50 . . 179 655 32 183 1791 103 974 29 725 285-9 76 366 2 458 32-2
1851-75 . . 183 176 32 346 176-8 99 087* 29 188 294-6 84 543 3158 37-4
1876-00 . . 170 642 28 875 168-9 89 912 25 836 287-3 81 224 3 039 37-4
1910 .... 169 816 24 904 147-5 87 329 21 327 244-3 82 487 3 577 43-6
1 For earlier years partly based on approximate calculations.
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