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of females' 52,762 ; both, 107,882; that is, the 

 proportion of male births to the male population 

 was 1 of 28.38 ; of female births to the female 

 population 1 of 31.92; mean, 1 of 30.15. 



From a valuable table formed by Mr. Milne on 

 these and other data, it appears that, according to 

 the law of mortality which prevailed in Sweden 

 during the five years ending with 1805, the ex- 

 pectation of life at birth would be for males 37 .820, 

 for females 41.019; both, 39.385: and that half 

 of the males would live to very nearly 43 years of 

 age, half of the females nearly to 48 years of age, 

 and half of all the births taken together to 45 

 years. 



A proportion of births as 1 to 30.15, and of 

 deaths as 1 to 40.92, would give a yearly excess 

 of births to the population, as 1 to 114.5, which, 

 if continued, would (according to Table II. at the 

 end of Ch. xi. Bk. ii.) give a rate of increase such 

 as to double the population in less than 80 years. 



In the Revue Encyclopedique for March, 1825, 

 a short account is given of the result of a com- 

 mission to inquire into the progress of population 

 in Sweden since 1748, from which it appears, that 

 Sweden properly so called'^ exclusive of Finland, 

 contained then 1,736,483 inhabitants; in 1773, 

 1,958,797; in 1798, 2,352,298; and in 1823, 

 2,687,457. In 1823, there had been 56,054 

 deaths, and 98,259 births. The excess of the 

 births in that year alone was therefore 42,205, and 

 it is stated that, supposing the same excess in the 

 next year, 1824, the average annual excess of the 



