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II. THE SWEDISH PEOPLE.
Death-rates 1891—1900.
Yearly number of deaths per 1 000 inh. (°/oo) of the mean population.
ratio is a thousand girls to 1 059 boys — which is rather higher than for
Europe in general. During the same period, the relative number of boys
amongst the total number of births (thus including still-births) has risen from
1 051 to 1 065.
Of the total number of births during 1751—55 there were, on the average,
25 °/00 still-born. Omitting the years 1801—20, this frequency gradually rose
until the years 1861 — 65, when it reached 33 °/00; since then, a considerable
diminution has taken place. At present, the number of still-born children
amounts only to 25 °/oo — a low proportion, compared with that of most of
the other European countries.
Multiple births occur in Sweden more frequently than in any other country
in Europe, excepting Finland. During the period 1750—1815 the frequency
of such births rose very considerably: from 1 014"7 children, born of every
thousand of mothers, to about 1 018. After that date the frequency fell again.
During the last fifty years, the number has been practically constant, or about
1 015 children to every thousand of mothers.
Mortality.
During the decade 1901—10, the average yearly number of deaths in
Sweden amounted to but 14-89 per thousand of the population. Statistics
show a lower mortality in Norway or Denmark for the same period;
otherwise the figures given are the lowest ever observed in any European
country. Lower figures have sometimes been given for certain parts of
America and Australia, but they cannot be regarded as reliable. It is,
therefore, highly probable that this Swedish figure is the lowest ever observed
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