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DEMOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN. 10 L
Table 5. Area and, population of the låns.
Lin. Area. Sq.km.’ Population at the end of the years In K of the entire population. Inh. per sq.km 1900*.
1751. 1865.» 1900. 1751. 1865. 1900.
Stockholm, citv .... 33 61,040 133,361 300,624 3-89 324 5’84
Stockholm, prov. ... 7,812 91,399 128,458 172,852 507 312 3-37 22
Uppsala.............. 5,313 63,895 96,766 123,863 3’64 285 2-41 23
Södermanland....... 6,816 79,817 133,900 167,428 4-43 3-25 326 25
Östergötland.......... 11,047 128,911 253,148 279,449 715 615 544 25
Jönköping............ 11,521 106.317 183,851 203,036 590 4-47 3’95 18
Kronoberg............ 9,910 67,283 162,553 159,124 3-78 3-96 310 16
Kalmar................. 11,543 96,053 233,165 227,625 5-88 5-67 448 20
Gotland................ 3,158 24,562 53,165 52,781 186 1-29 103 17
; Blekinge............... 3,015 47,000 125,436 146,302 2’61 306 284 49
Kristianstad.......... 6,445 90,335 222,235 219,166 501 5’40 4’27 34
Malmöhus............. 4,829 105,163 305,261 409,304 588 7-42 797 85
Halland................ 4,921 58,234 126,060 141,688 3’23 30« 276 29
Göteborg och Bohas 5,047 76,537 232,181 337,175 4-26 5-64 657 67
Elfsborg............... 12,725 116,853 279,153 279.514 6-48 679 6-44 22
Skar» borg............. 8,480 97,918 236,775 241,069 548 576 4’69 28
Vermland. ............ 19,323 100,917 259,612 254,284 6’60 6-31 495 13
Örebro.................. 9,095 73,U00 162,717 194,924 4 05 396 3-80 21
Vestmanland......... 6,768 71,952 108,859 148,271 399 266 2-89 22
Kopparberg........... 29,849 97,428 174,758 217,708 5-41 425 424 7
Gelieborg ............ 19,724 56,000 143,793 238,048 311 3-60 4-64 12
Vesternorrland..... 25,532 36,890 127,524 232,311 206 310 4’52 9
Jemtland............ 50,972 19,00U 68,071 111,391 105 1-65 217 2
Vesterbotten........ 58,993 18,369 88,763 143,735 102 216 2-80 2
Norrbotten............ 105,882 18,500 74,676 134,769 103 1-81 2-62 1
The large lakes®.... 9,109 — — — — — — —
Total 447,842 1,802,373 4,114,141 3,136,441 100 100 100 II
Population at different periods.
The population of Sweden at some characteristic times during the
course of the last few centuries, is seen by Table 6, and in Table 7
the rates of births and deaths are also given from the year 1700; a
series of details quite unequaled in their kind.
To follow the changes of the population of Sweden is to follow in
the main the history of its people. On this pregnant subject only a
few hints can here be given.
It was formerly believed that during the early Middle Ages (before
the Black Death at the middle of the 14th century) Sweden possessed
a population of many millions, but this view is now abandoned.
According to the figures given in the Table, Sweden had in 1570 a
population of about 900,000. The 17th century, so rich for Sweden in
glory and suffering, seems, in spite of the almost constant succession
of wars, to have brought with it no inconsiderable increase of
population, so that, at the close of that century, Sweden probably possessed,
within its present boundaries, about 11/a million souls.
1 A sq. kilom. = 0 886 sq. mile. — * At the beginning of the greater emigration. —
’ Venern, Vettern, Mälaren, and Hjelmaren. — 4 One inhab. per sq. km. = 2 59 inh. per sq. mile.
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