Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — The German Empire. [ARTICLE]

The German Empire.

The- German Statistical Office has just published an abstract of the results of the census of 1875. This document shows a large increase of the population, if We compare it to the foregoing census. On the 81st of December, 1875, the total of the population amounted t0'42,757,812 inhabitants. On the Ist of December, 1871, 41,058,792 inhabitants were accounted, including, of course, the troops then stationed ini France. According to these figures, there has been an increase of 1,099,020 inhabitants within four years, or as much as 1.01 per cent, a year. Within the years 1867-71. the population had increased by 951,617, or only 0.58 per cent, (average! a year. In the latter figures Alsace and Lorraine have been included. Within the last ceqsus period, the population therefore increased by 700,000 in* in the foregoing period of four yearn. Only a part of this difference may be ascribed to the war between Germany and France. The principle reasons of the increase lie in a reduction of emigration and in a strong over-balance of births against deaths. If we look at the figures of each separate country we find that the population of Prussia alone increased by 1,062,216 inhabitants, whilst Us average yearly increase has amounted to 1.07 per ent., against 0.69 of the foregoing period of four years. The increase was, however, greatest, in Saxony, where the population of .two millions and a half increased by 200,000 Inhabitants—that Is, 1.92 per cent, a year, against l.V*per cent, in the foregoing census periqg. In Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Hesse# and Aden, the growth of the population has not been as strong as in Prussia and Saxony. Of the other twenty States, only Mecklenburg, Lubeck-Waldeck and Alsace-Lorraine ’have suffered such a reduction in the number of their inhabitants. The reduction is, however, very much less important than it had been iu the foregoing period of four years, and the sole cause was emigration, which in these States took place on a larger scale—in Alsace-Lorraine on. account Qf political reasons, hi the other States on account of the slow state of industrial progress.— London Economist.