THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION OF 

 GERMANY, 



The statistics of occupations in Germany are not collected 

 at the usual quinquennial enumeration of the population, but 

 form the object of a special inquiry ; and the statistics of the 

 last occupation census, taken on the 14th June, 1895, have 

 recently been published by the German Government. 



The results are exhibited in two ways, firstly, by considering 

 every person in the Empire to be directly dependent upon 

 some kind of employment — children and domestic servants, 

 being thus placed in the same category as the bread- 

 winners of the family — and, secondly, by classifying only the 

 persons actually occupied in the various employments. The 

 whole population of the empire amounted on the 141:1 June, 

 1895, to 51,770,284 persons, of whom 18,501,307 (or 3574 per 

 cent, of the total) are classed as agricultural (including 

 "forestry and fishing"); while industries accounted for 

 20,253,241, or 39*12 per cent., and commerce for 5,966,845 

 or 1 1*52 per cent. ; the remainder being made up of the army,, 

 navy, professional, and independent classes, etc. In 1882 

 (the year of the preceding occupation census), the corre- 

 sponding number of the agricultural class was 19,225,455, or 

 42-51 per cent, of the total population ; industries at that date 

 claiming 35*5 1 per cent., and commerce 10*02 per cent. It 

 thus appears that the agricultural and industrial classes have 

 changed places, and that the commercial class is now of 

 more importance than previously. 



As reg-ards the number of persons actually engaged in the 



