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DEMOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN.
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Thus, it is seen that, during the years 1751/75, there were, on an
average, 257,321 married persons under fifty years of age to every
million of the inhabitants. In 1895 this number had fallen to 201,812
per million. The average figure for "Western Europe, in our days, is
251,900 per million, that is, about the same that was found in Sweden
during the eighteenth century.
If we pay attention only to the nnmber of the married women between
the ages of 15/45 — an age-group which is the most suitable as a means of
comparison with the number of births — we find it, as a whole and for different
ages, to have changed in the manner which is shown by Table 17.
Table 17. Married women between 15/45 years, per 1 million inhabitants.*
Average for the years 1545 years. 15/30 years. 30/45 years. 15/20 years. 20/25 years. 25/30 years. 30/35 years. 35/40 years. 40/45 years.
I 1751 75 ......i 113,637 j 35,305 78,332 1,854 10,958 22,493 27,008 26,528 24,796
I 1776/00............110,416 33,381 77,035 1,649 10,175 21,557 26,142 26.376 24,517
! 1801/25............I OS,858 ! 32,587 76,271 1,208 9,999 21,380 26,139 25,930 24,202
11826 50............103,874 30,145 73,829 685 8,788 20,672 25,429 25,276 23,124
■ 185175............99,087 26,044 73,043 454 7,038 18,552 24,625 25,396 23,022
11876 95 ............90,418 25,334 ! 65,084 496 7,307 17,531 21,808 22,201 21,075
i In 1895......1 87,963 22,775 65,188 494 6,824 15,457 21,964 22,751 20,473
The total nnmber of married women between the ages 15/45 has thus
fallen from 113,637 per million of the total population to 87,963 per million. (The
present average for Western Europe is about 113,000 per million). Between the
ages of 15/20 the decline is, however, from 1,854 to only 494; between 20/25
from 10,958 to 6,824, and between the ages 25/30 from 22,493 to 15,457.
The whole group between the ages of 15/30 has thus fallen from 35,305 to
22,775 or by 35 the decline in the group between the ages 30/45 is, on the
contrary, but %. It can thus be clearly seen how the decline in the
frequency of marriage implies in the first place retardated entry into the
married state.
It would, however, not be quite correct to imagine that the
percentage of the unmarried has increased in the degree that might be
supposed from the numbers given above. The case really is that a
great number of the young people who have not found an opportunity
of entering into the married state, have emigrated. In consequence of
this, the percentage of married out of the remaining population, is
able to be held at a much higher figure than one might expect from
the decline in the frequency of marriages. These conditions, both for
older and newer times, are shown by Table 18 (next page).
From this table we see that no very considerable diminution in the number
of married has taken place during the last few decades, and, as regards the
younger ages, we find now no diminution at all. Counting from the period
1851/75 to 1895, we find that the number of married men in the age of 20/25
years has risen from 7-3 to 7’5 % and in the age of 25/30 years has fallen
only from 38’7 to 38*1 %■ Among the women the frequency of married has
risen in both tbe groups 15/20 and 20/25 years, in the first one from l-o to
• Groups of five years before 1870 according to approximate calculations.
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