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IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION.
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Table 29. Division by Age of total registered Emigration and
Immigration 1861—1910.
Emigrants Immigrants Exces6 of emigration
Total Men Women Total Men Women Total Men Women
0- -15 . . 193026 97 533 95 493 44 007 22 128 21879 149 019 75 405 73 614
15- —20 . . 223 995 119 440 104 555 16 290 8 210 8 080 207 705 111 230 96 475
20- -25 . . 296 78S 170 785 126 003 41918 22 404 19 514 254 870 148 381 106 489
25- -30 . . ISO S06 102 763 78 043 45 722 25 664 20 058 135 084 77 099 57 985
30- -35 . . 97 107 54 650 42 457 34 616 20 897 13 719 62 491 33 753 28 738
35- -40 . . 56 761 32 370 24 391 21668 13 617 8 051 35 093 18 753 16 340
40 -45 . . 35 196 20 132 15 064 13 472 8 956 4 516 21 724 11176 10 548
45- -50 . . 23 734 13 095 10 639 8 430 5 472 2 958 15 304 7 623 7 681
50 -to1 . 46 143 21151 24 992 14 290 8 595 5 695 31853 12 556 19 297
Total 1153 556 631 919 521637 240 413 135 943 104 470 913143 495976 417 167
of this, again, is a relative diminution also in the number of births, so that
the group 0—5 years also belongs to those whose relative numbers are declining.
The age-groups 5—15 and 35—to are better shielded, especially the age-group
50—w. The effect of all this upon the composition of the population according
to age is shown plainly by Table 15.
During the whole period 1851—1910, of those emigrants, for whom
returns as to destination are made, about 965 000 persons have gone
to trans-oceanic lands, the incomparably greatest proportion of whom
have emigrated to the United States of America, whilst 205 000
persons have sought European countries. Of the latter number of
emigrants, 66 000 have gone to Norway, 83 000 to Denmark, 18 000 to
Finland and Russia, 27 000 to Germany, and only 11 000 to other
European countries. The annual number of emigrants to our neighbouring
countries remains almost constant at about 5 000 persons; of those who
go to Norway and Denmark there return more than 50 %. The
immigration from Finland is even greater than the emigration thither. On the
contrary only 6 % of the emigrant Swedes have returned from the United
States, though the percentage has considerably risen during recent years.
According to the census of 1910, the Swedish-born element of the
population of the United States, was 665 183; those born in the U. S. of
Swedish parents numbered 546 788. (Moreover, there were 152 244
persons of mixed Swedish and American parentage and 105 133 of mixed
Swedish and "other foreign" parentage.) The American Swedes are
mostly to be found in the West North Central division (in Minnesota
122 428. or 18-4 per cent of all of Swedish birth), the East North Central
(Illinois 115 424) and also in the Middle Atlantic and New England
states. The Swedish immigrants in a greater proportion than those of
most other nations, have occupied themselves with farming, though the
proportion of those occupied in manufactures is in the increase.
1 Including a small number of unknown age.
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