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emigration acting in concert have elevated the birth- 

 rate in the degree in which its decline has come short 

 of falling to an equipoise with that of the death-rate. 



I now present the vital statistics of Sweden and 

 Norway, two countries in which the elevating factor 

 of the birth-rate has been mainly the amount of 

 emigration that in a continuous stream has flowed 

 outward, directed mostly to the United States. 



In the annual reports of the Registrar-General of 

 England, the vital statistics of Norway go no further 

 back than the year 1871. The period of 33 years, 

 1871-1903, I have divided into four parts, the first 

 three consisting of 8 years each, the fourth part of 

 9 years. 



NORWAY 



The Swedish table I begin with the decade 

 1854-63, which preceded that in which the tide of 

 emigration began to flow which has since characterised 

 the movement of population in Sweden 



