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GERMANY
The number of divorces in Germany was in 1914, 17,740, being 26-2 per 100,000 inhabitants ; in 1915, 10,791 or 15'9 ; in 1916, 10,494, or 15'5 ; and in 1917 (exclusive of Alsace-Lorraine), 1.1,603, or 17'3.
The following table shows the annual number of German emigrants for three years : —
Total
Destination
Year
| European Countries'
United States
Brazil
Other American
Countries
Africa
Australia
1912 .
1913 .
1914 .
18,545 25,843 11,803
90 68 51
13,706
19,124
9,614
225 140
77
4,198 6,120 1,241
4
32
8
322 359 282
1 All to Great Britain.
III. Principal Towns. German towns are officially distinguished as large towns (with 100,000 inhabitants and upwards) ; medium towns (20,000-100,000 inhabitants) ; small towns (5,000-20,000 inhabitants), and country towns 2,000-5,000 in- habitants). In 1905, only 1 town had over 1,000,000 inhabitants ; 10 others over 250,000 ; 30 others over 100,000 ; 43 between 50,000 and 100,000 ; and 137 between 20,000 and 50,000. According to the results of the census of October 8, 1910, the population of the principal towns at that date was : —
Town
Berlin
Hamburg
Munich
Leipzig
Dresden
Cologne
Breslau .
Frankfort-on
Main . Diisseldorf Nurnberg Charlotten
burg . Hanover Essen . Chemnitz Stuttgart
Magdeburg
Bremen
Kbnigsberg
Neukolln
Stettin .
DuJsbtirg
Dortmund
fOj..
J?0l).
State
(8 Oct.,
Town
State
(8 Oct.,
1919)
wiff)
Prussia
. 1,902,509
Kiel .
Prussia
205,330
Hambur;
I 985,779
Mannheim .
Baden .
229,576
Bavaria
630,711
Halle-on-Saale
Prussia .
182,326
Saxony,
EL 604,380
Berlin-
>>
529,326
Schoeneberg
>i
175,082
Prussia
633,904
Altona .
>)
168,729
> t
528,260
Elberfeld Gelsenkirchen
157,218 168,557
ft
433,002
Barmen
>»
156,326
»»
. 407,338
Aachen .
>> •
145,748
Bavaria
352,675
Cassel .
»»
162,391
Brunswick .
Brunswick
139,539
Prussia
322,766
Bochum
142,760
>>
310,431
Karlsruhe
Baden .
135,952
f y
439,257
Crefeld.
Prussia .
124,325
Saxony,
E. 303,775
Plauen ,
Saxony, K.
104,918
Wiirttem
Miilheim-on-
berg
309,197
Ruhr
Prussia .
127,027
Prussia
285,856
Erfurt .
»» •
129,646
Bremen
. 257,923
Mainz .
Hesse .
107,930
Prussia
260,895
Berlin-Wil-
262,127
mersdorf
Prussia .
139,406
? j
232,726
Wiesbaden .
>> •
97,566
f i
244,302
Saarbriicken .
>> •
—
>» •
295,026
Augsburg §j .
Bavaria .
154,555
