RELIGION AND INSTRUCTION
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MOTKMENT OF THE POPULATION". 1. Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
Tear
Total living Births
Of which Illegitimate
Stillborn Marriages
Deaths
exclusive of ••orn
Surplus of
Births over
Deaths
1915 1010 19171 19181 19191
122,997 121,679 184,441
117,739 114.50. - .
19.494 18,186
3,095 33,182 3,087 35,024
— 16,588
— 38,626
— 40.327
83,587
104,183 81,247
39,410
•MM
43,304
13,^56 30,258
1 Provisional.
2. Emigration.
Tear
Immi- grants
Total
Emigrants
To U. a of _
America j xear
Immi- grants
Total Emigrants
To U. B. of America
1912 1913 lyl4 1915
B.3M
S.407 8,636 6,357
1S.117 ,
20.346
12,960
13,896 16,329 9,589 4,538
1916 1919
6,713 5.S11 4,932 7,809
10,571 6,440 4,853 7,337
- .•-•■-
MM 1,416 3,777
II. Principal Towvb.
In 1860 the town population numbered only 434,519, in 1900 1,103,951, and at the beginning of 1920, 1,715,969, showing an increase of from 11 per cent, of the whole population of Sweden (in 1860) to 30 per cent, (in 1920).
Towns over 10,000 inhabitants at the beginning of 1920 : —
Stockholm
. 415,201
Borås . . .
. 27,46*5
Göteborg . .
. 200,577
Karlskrona .
. 27,029
. 111,931
Linköping .
. 26.300
Norrköping .
. 57,377
Lund . . .
. J8,8S7
Hälsingborg .
. 45,927
Landskrona .
. 19,542
. 17
Karlstad . .
. 18.922
. 35,096
Halmstad
. 18,276
Eskilstuna
. 30,103
Sundsvall
. 16,861
Västerås . .
. 29,530
Kalmar . .
. 16,-00
Jönköping
. 28,875
Södertälje .
. 14.897
Uppsala . .
. 28,041
Trollhättan .
. 14,810
Uddevalla Östersund . Kristianstad Falun . . Västervik . Nyköping . Ystad . . Kristinehamn Söderhamn Trälleborg Luleå . .
13.594 13,321 12,455
12.21-2
11,461 11,319
11,238 11,086 10,924 10,281
Religion and Instruction.
The mass of the population adhere to the Lutheran Protestant Church, recognised as the State religion. There are 12 bishoprics (Uppsala being the metropolitan see), and 2,587 parishes at the beginning of 1920. At the census of 1910, the number of 'Evangelical Lutherans' was returned at 5,497,689, the Protestant Dissenters, Baptists, and Methodists, numbering 14,715. Of other creeds, there were 3,070 Roman Catholics (under a Vicar Apostolic resident at Stockholm), 6,112 Jews, and 817 others. No civil disabilities attach to those not of the national religion. The clergy are chiefly supported from the parishes and the proceeds of the Church lands.
The Kingdom has two universities, at Uppsala (founded in 1477) and Lund (founded in 1668), the former having 2,517 and the latter 1.444 students in the autumn of 1919. There are also a State faculty of medicine in Stockholm (founded in 1810), with 680 students, and private universities in Stockholm (founded in 1877), philosophical and law faculties, with 832 students, and Goteborg (founded in 1889), philosophical faculty, with 239 students. In Stockholm there is also an academy of commerce
