Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — Population in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Population in Germany.

During the quinquennial I er c d 187&1880, notwithstanding commercial depression, the census of the German Empire showed an average increase in population of about 500,000 souls. Since 1880, however, according to statistics lately published, a contrary movement has set in. The falling however, is somewhat unequally divided; and in Prussia there is a slight increase, amounting to about 8,000 or 9,t)00 persons in the Rhinish Provinees, Westphalia, Saxony and Brandenburgh. On the other hand, the Province of Posen is said to have lost 87,780. Eastern Prussia 31,614, and Pomerania 22,322. The diminution in Bavaria W been more considerable. Out' of a population of 5,284,778 inhabitants, which Bavaria possessed at the end of 1880, there is now » loss of 23,186; white Wurtemburg has lost 14,052 out of 1,911,118.