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| Departments | Area : English sq. miles | Population | Population per sq. mile. 1896 | |
| April, 1891 | April, 1896 | |||
| Seine-et-Oise | 2,164 | 628,590 | 669,098 | 309.2 |
| Sevres (Deux) | 2,317 | 354,282 | 346,694 | 149.6 |
| Somme | 2,379 | 546,495 | 543,279 | 228.3 |
| Tarn | 2,217 | 346,739 | 339,827 | 153.3 |
| Tarn-et-Garoniic | 1,436 | 206,596 | 200,390 | 139.5 |
| Var | 2,349 | 288,336 | 309,191 | 131.6 |
| Yauclusc | 1,370 | 235,411 | 236,313 | 172.5 |
| Vendée | 2,588 | 442,355 | 441,735 | 170.6 |
| Vienne | 2,691 | 344,355 | 338,114 | 125.6 |
| Vienne (Haute-) | 2,130 | 372,878 | 375,724 | 176.4 |
| Vosges | 2,266 | 410,196 | 421,412 | 186.0 |
| Yonne | 2,868 | 344,688 | 332,656 | 115.9 |
| Total | 204,092 | 38,342,948 | 38,517,975 | 188.7 |
The population actually present at the date of the Census in 1886 was 37,886,566, and in 1891, 38,133,385. Of the total population present in 1891, 18,932,354 (49.65 per cent.) were males, and 19,201,031 (50-35 per cent.) females.
It will be seen that between 1891 and 1896 there has been a decrease of population in 63 departments, and an increase in 24 the total net increase being 175,027.
Notwithstanding a moderate death-rate, the population of France increases more slowly than that of most States of Western Europe, owing to the low rate of births. Between the years 1811 and 1820 the average annual surplus of births over deaths was 5-7 per thousand of population ; between 1851 and 1860 it was 2.9; and between 1881 and 1885 it was 1-6. The average number of births per marriage was (1881-85) about 3; in 1891 it was 2.1.
The changes of area and population since 1801 (date of the first census taken) are seen from the following table. The third, fourth, and fifth columns give [in brackets] for the first five censuses the population, its density, and its average annual increase on the present territory of France, and are thus comparable with the data for the censuses posterior to the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.
Dates
Area : sq. miles
Population
Inhabitants per sq. mile
Annual Increase per 10,000 inhabits.
1801
204,765
27,349,00.3
134
_
[26,930,750]
[132]
1821
—
30,461,875
140
57
[20,871,176]
[146]
[55] |- |1841||—||34,230,178||167||62 |- | || ||[33,400,864]||[164]||[68] |- |1861||209,625||37,386,313||178||37 |- | || ||[35,844,002]||[176]||[36] |- |1866||—||38,067,064||182||40 |- | || ||[36,495,480]||[179]||[36] |- |1872||204,092||36,102,921||177||[-17]1 |- |1876||—||36,905,788||181||54 |- |1881||—||37,672,048||184||41 |- |1886||—||38,218,903||187||29 |- |1891||—||38,342,948||18.-8||6.5 |- |1896||—||38,517,975||188.7||4.5 |} 1 Decrease.