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GERMANY— BAYARIA.
Year of Census
Population
Triennial Increase or Decrease
1834
4,246,779
1837
4,315,468
Increase 68,689
1840
4,370,974
55,506
1843
4,440,327
„ 69,353
1846
4,504,874
64,547
1849
4,520,751
15,877
1852
4,559,452
38,701
1855
4,541,556
Decrease 17,896
1858
4,615,748
Increase 74,192
1861
4,689,837
74,089
1864
4,807,440
117,603
1867
4,824,421
16,981
The great fluctuations in the rate of increase, extremely low on the whole, are referred to emigration. According to an official state- ment, the total number of emigrants who left Bavaria with the knowledge and sanction of the government, during the thirty-three years from 1834 to 1867, was 273,000; but this figure is supposed to represent barely one-half of the number of persons who actually quitted the country during that period, it being known that every year masses of individuals emigrate secretly, that is, without obtain- ing the permission of the authorities, as required by law.
The soil of the kingdom is divided among 947,010 proprietors. The division is greatest in the Rhenish Palatinate, namely, 228,976, and smallest in Upper Bavaria, viz. 109,195.
The population of the principal towns of the kingdom was as follows at the census of Dec. 3, 1864, and of Dec. 3, 1867 : —
Towns
Capital of the Circle of
Population
1864
18G7
Munich (Miinchen) Nurnberg
Augsburg
Wiirzburg
Ratisbon (Regensburg) .
Bayreuth
Upper Bavaria . . Middle Franconia .
Lower Franconia . Upper Palatinate . Upper Franconia .
167,054 70,492 49,333 41,082 29,893 19,208
170,688 77,895 50,067 42,185 30,357 19,464
It will be seen that in none of the larger towns of Bavaria did any great increase of population take place between the years 1864 and 1867. The most considerable was that shown by Nurnberg, the principal manufacturing city in the kingdom.
