GERMAN POPULATION STATISTICS.
The Imperial Statistical Office of Germany has published some interesting facts concerning the population statistics of that country. The estimated population of the Empire at the end of IS7S was, in round numbers, 44,211,000. The number of births during the year was 1,785,080, and of deaths 1>228,607 (70,647 children, born dead are reckoned among both births and deaths), giving an excess of births over deaths of 556,473, or an annual increase of population amounting to. more than 1*25 per cent. The number of marriages during the year was 340,016. For every 1000 of the population 15*4 were married 40 - 4 were born, and 2t'-8 died; so that the births were more numerous than the deaths by 1-2 G per 1000. In In the year 1872 the number of marriages was 423,900} they have been steadily decreasing every year since then, until 1878, when the decrease amounted to 83,584, or more than 19*7 of the number six years previously. The greatest annual number of births during the present decade was in 1876, when they amounted to 1,831,218. The proportion of deaths to births lias been slightly gaining during the last couple of years. The number of children born dead is 3-9 of the total number of births.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1137, 21 May 1880, Page 3
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