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DENMARK
A minister for Iceland (Bjorn Jonsson) nominated by the king, and residing; at Reikjavik is the responsible head of the administration. The offices ol the governor and the two Amtmands have been abolished.
Area and Population.
The following table gives the area and population of Denmark in 1911: —
Divisions
Area 1911 English sq. m.
Population 1911
Population
1911 per sq. m.
City of Copenhagen (Kjobenhavn)\ without suburbs . . . / Islands in the Baltic Peninsula of Jutland Faeroe Islands ....
Total
27
5,117
9,898
540
15,582
462,161
1,096,458
1,198,457
18,000
2,775,076
16,800
214
121
33
178
The population (excluding the Faeroes) consisted of 1,337,900 males and 1,419,176 females in 1911. The total population at the census of 1906 was 2,757,076, showing an increase during 1906— 11 of 1*27 per cent, per annum. Jn Denmark proper the town population has increased from 1,023,334 in 1906 to 1,109,726 in 1911; while the rural population has increased from 1,565,585 in 1906 to 1,647,350 in 1911. The population is almost entirely Scandinavian ; in 1901, of the inhabitants of Denmark proper, 96 '66 per cent, were born in Denmark, 0'07 per cent, were born in the Colonies, 0*15 per cent, in Norway, 1*45 per cent, in Sweden, 0*97 per cent, in Sleswig, 0*47 per cent, in other parts of Germany, and 0*23 per cent, in other foreign countries. The foreign-born population Avas thus 3 "27 per cent, of the whole.
According to the occupation the population of Denmark in 1906 was classified thus: —
Immaterial Production
Agriculture and Forestrj' .
Dairy worlc
Fishing.
Business and industry .
Railways, posts, telegraplis, tele- phones, Land transports, and navitration . ...
148,284
977,808
13,113
37,154
801 91G
142,05^
Commerce, circulation, & hotel-
l<eeping 247,130
Capitalists and rural pensioners . 108,723
Public assistance (including the
aged) 68,969
Profession not indicated. . . 43,765
Total
. 2,588,919
The population of the capital, Copenhagen (Kjcibenhavn), in 1911, was 462,161, or with suburbs, 559,398 ; Aarhuus, 61,755 ; Odense, 42,237 ; Aal- l)org, 33,449 ; Horsens, 23,843 ; Randers, 22,970.
The following table gives the total number of births, deatlis, and marriages with the surplus of births over deaths, in five years : —
Surplus of
Years
Total Births
Still Births
Marriages
Deaths
Births over
Deaths
1907
74,324
1,823
20,103
37,275
37,049
1908
76,232
1,845
19,956
39,072
37,160
1909
76,301
1,815
19,944
35,807
40,494
1910
75,297
1,783
19,986
35,187
40,110
1911
73,938
1,751
19,879
37,232
36,706
