GERMAN CENSUS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 4

GERMAN CENSUS.

SOME INTERESTING DETAILS. • A German paper gives some interesting details of the last census, taken on December 1,: 1910. There were,- only 1,259,873 foreigners in Germany,at this date, and more than half of these-- were- German--speaking. That 'is .W'"my, *' Austrians. Dutchmen, Russians, Italians, Swiss, came next, and the French, and English are apparently a very small number. The census takes account of religion, and in 1910 there were 39,991,421 Evangelicals, that is to say. Lutherans, and 23,821,153 Roman Catholics, in Germany. Other Protestant sects contributed about a quarter of a million, and the Jews 615,021, while only 2114 described themselves as belonging to-other non-Christian sects. About 6000 people refused to state what they believed. The number of people between forty and fifty, and over seventy, shows' n. considerable increase on the last census, which suggests .that the .decline in the death-rate has as much to do with the increase in the population as birthrate. The number of married people shows an increase, and the number of bachelors-and widowed persons a decrease. The percentage of married persons in 1910 was 51.2 a, as compared with 53,18 in 1900. The number of widows and widowers declined from 5.58 to 8.06. This calculation is based on the total number of Germans oyer fifteen years of age. Since 1,871, taking the whole population, the number of married .persons has increased by 2 per cent. But the birth-rato shows a proportional decline. Th« fact that people between sixty and seventy number 14.05 per cent, of the population, while young people under ten number only 11.12, and those between twenty and thirty 10.93, is a clear, evidence that the birth-rate shows the same tendency in Germany as in I'ranee and England.