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AUSTillA

(Bezirk). They cousist of the representatives (1) of great estates, (2) of the most highly taxed industries and trades, (3) of the towns and markets, (4) of the rural communes (Landgemeinden). Members are elected for three years, in Galicia for six. A committee of this body (called the Bezirksausschuss , administers the current affairs of the district.

Area and Population.

I. Progress and Present Condition. The following is the civil population of Austria at the last 4 censuses

Population

Absolute increase

1880 1890 1900 1910

21,981,821 23,707,906 25,921,671 28,324,940

1,764,290 1,726,085 2,213,765 2,403,269

Yearly increase per cent.

0-76

0-76 0-90 0-93

Statistics of the provinces of Austria :-

Area :

Census Population, Dec. 31

Popula-

Provinces

English square

tion iier sq. mile

miles

1900

Total

1910

1910

Male

Female

Total

Lower Austria .

7,658

3,100.493

1,726,249

1,805,565

3,531,814

461

Upper Austria .

4,628

810.246

422,822

430,184

853,006

184

Salzburg .

2,768

192,763

107,660

107,077

214,737

78

Styria.

8,662

1,856.494

719,960

724,197

1,444,157

167

Carinthia .

3,9S9

367,324

198,260

197,9^0

396,200

99

Carniola

3,845

508,150

250,577

275,418

525,995

137

Coast land .

3,07y

756,54«

456,530

437,267

893,797

290

Tyrol and Vorarlbcrg

11,312

981,949

547,800

544,221

1,092,021

97

Bohemia

20.065

6,318,697

3,307,693

3,461,855

6,769,548

337

Moravia

8,583

2,437,706

1,269,432

1,352,839

2,622,271

306

8ilesia

1,988

680,422

369,998

386,951

756.949

381

Galicia

.30,321

7,315,939

3,938,315

4,087,360

8,025,675

265

Bukowina ,

4,033

730,195

395,963

404,135

800,098

198

Dalmatia .

4,956

593,784 26,150,708

322,763 14,084,022

322,903 14,537,912

645,666

180

Total

115,882

28,571,934

247

Ethnical elements on the basis of language

1910

1910

German .

9,950,266

Slovene .

1,252,940

Bohemian, Moravian,

Servian and Croatian

783,334

and Slovak .

6,435,983

Italian and Ladin .

768,422

Polish .

4,967,984

Roumanian

275,115

Rutheiiian

3,518,854

Magyar .

10,974