AREA AND POPULATION
857
Area
Populat
ion Dec. 1, 1910
Pop.
ytates of the Empire
English sq. miles
per sq.
mile 1910
Male
Female i
Total
106,442
Mecklenburg-Str. .
1,131
53,518
52,924 '
93
8
Saxe-Meiningen .
953
136,614
142,148
278,762
291
5
Anhalt
888
161,134
169,994
331,128
373
9
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
764
125,330
131,847
257,177
337
Saxe-Altenburg .
511
106,278
109,850
216,128
423
3
Lippe .
469
73,254
77,683
150,937
321
4
Waldeck
433
30,544
31,163
61,707
142
5
S ch warzburg- Rud .
363
49,335
51,367
100,702
277
5
Scliwarzburg-Sond.
333
44,149
45,768
89,917
270
2
Reuss Junr. Branch
319
74,345
78,407
152,752
478
9
Schaumburg-Lippe.
131
23,400
23,252
46,652
352
5
Reuss Elder Branch
122
34,781
37,988
72,769
595
2
Hamburg
160
504,902
509,762
1,014,664
6,973
•1
Liibeck
115
56,911
59,688
116,599
1,013
•3
Bremen
99
148,529
150,997
299,526
3,017
•6
Alsace-Lorraine .
5,604 208,780
965,625
908,389
1,874,014
333-9
Total .
32,040,166
32,885,827
64,925,993
310-4
The population of the lands now included in the German Empire (with- out Helgoland) was 24,831,396 in 1816, and 31,589,547 in 1837, showing an average annual increase of nearly 1-3 per cent. The following table shows the actual increase in population at various periods, with the annual rate of increase per cent. The small increase in 1867-71 is explained by the- inter- vention of the war with France.
Year
Increase
Annual Rate
Year
Increase
Annual Rate
per cent.
per cent.
1867 1
3,220,083
0-97
1 1890
2,572,766
ro7
1871
970,171
0-60
1895
2,851,431
1-12
1875
1,668,568
1 !
1900
4,087,277
1-50
1880
2,50G.70L
1-14
1905
4,274,311
1-46
1885
1,621,643
0-7
1910
4,284,504
1-36
1 Since 1855.
The increase of population duiint; 1905-10 was greatest in Bremen, Ham burg, Oldenburg, Liibeck, Prussia, Hesse, Baden and Saxony, and least ii Anhalt, Brunswick, and Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
The number of households in 1905 was 13,274,531 (in 1900, 12,260,012) Of the total population in 1895, 50*2 per cent., in 1900, 47*0 per cent., ii 1905, 54*3 per cent., lived in towns of 2,000 inhabitants and above '^ every 100 inhabitants there lived in —
m Of
—
No.ofTowns
1895
No.offowns
1900
No.ofTowns
1905
Large towns ^ .
28
13-9
33
16-2
41
19-0
Medium ,,
150
10-7
194
12-6
208
12-9
Small , ,
806
13-6
864
13-5
- 945
13-7
Country ,,
2,111
12-0
2,269
12-1
2,386
11-8
Other places
—
49-8
73,599
45-6
72,811
42-6
1 For the official signification of these nanies see under Principal Towns.
