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DENMARK

A minister for Iceland (Bjorn Jonsson) nominated by the king, and residing; at Reikjavik is the responsible head of the administration. The offices ol the governor and the two Amtmands have been abolished.

Area and Population.

The following table gives the area and population of Denmark in 1911: —

Divisions

Area 1911 English sq. m.

Population 1911

Population

1911 per sq. m.

City of Copenhagen (Kjobenhavn)\ without suburbs . . . / Islands in the Baltic Peninsula of Jutland Faeroe Islands ....

Total

27

5,117

9,898

540

15,582

462,161

1,096,458

1,198,457

18,000

2,775,076

16,800

214

121

33

178

The population (excluding the Faeroes) consisted of 1,337,900 males and 1,419,176 females in 1911. The total population at the census of 1906 was 2,757,076, showing an increase during 1906— 11 of 1*27 per cent, per annum. Jn Denmark proper the town population has increased from 1,023,334 in 1906 to 1,109,726 in 1911; while the rural population has increased from 1,565,585 in 1906 to 1,647,350 in 1911. The population is almost entirely Scandinavian ; in 1901, of the inhabitants of Denmark proper, 96 '66 per cent, were born in Denmark, 0'07 per cent, were born in the Colonies, 0*15 per cent, in Norway, 1*45 per cent, in Sweden, 0*97 per cent, in Sleswig, 0*47 per cent, in other parts of Germany, and 0*23 per cent, in other foreign countries. The foreign-born population Avas thus 3 "27 per cent, of the whole.

According to the occupation the population of Denmark in 1906 was classified thus: —

Immaterial Production

Agriculture and Forestrj' .

Dairy worlc

Fishing.

Business and industry .

Railways, posts, telegraplis, tele- phones, Land transports, and navitration . ...

148,284

977,808

13,113

37,154

801 91G

142,05^

Commerce, circulation, & hotel-

l<eeping 247,130

Capitalists and rural pensioners . 108,723

Public assistance (including the

aged) 68,969

Profession not indicated. . . 43,765

Total

. 2,588,919

The population of the capital, Copenhagen (Kjcibenhavn), in 1911, was 462,161, or with suburbs, 559,398 ; Aarhuus, 61,755 ; Odense, 42,237 ; Aal- l)org, 33,449 ; Horsens, 23,843 ; Randers, 22,970.

The following table gives the total number of births, deatlis, and marriages with the surplus of births over deaths, in five years : —

Surplus of

Years

Total Births

Still Births

Marriages

Deaths

Births over

Deaths

1907

74,324

1,823

20,103

37,275

37,049

1908

76,232

1,845

19,956

39,072

37,160

1909

76,301

1,815

19,944

35,807

40,494

1910

75,297

1,783

19,986

35,187

40,110

1911

73,938

1,751

19,879

37,232

36,706