328 German Agricultural Population. 



different occupations, the German census divides the popula- 

 tion up as follows : — 





Number. 



Per cent. 



Persons actually occupied - 

 Domestic servants living with their employers - 

 Dependents (i.e., chiefly women and children) 

 Independent persons without occupation - 



20,771,090 

 h339, 3^ 



27,5!7,275 

 2,142,601 



40-12 

 2'59 



53-15 

 4-14 



Total - 



51,770,284 



100 



The principal changes in these proportions during the last 

 fifteen years, are an increase of 1*13 per cent, in the percentage 

 of actually occupied persons [i.e., they formed 38*99 per cent, 

 of the population in 1882, and are now 40*12 per cent.), and 

 of 1 -14 per cent, in the persons without a profession; and 

 decreases of 1*93 per cent, and 0*34 per cent, in the numbers 

 of dependents and domestic servants respectively. 



In estimating the proportion of people engaged in any 

 occupation it is the figure 20,771,090 which is usually taken 

 as the whole occupied population, the servants, dependents, 

 and persons without profession being excluded. 



The number of persons actually engaged in agriculture 

 (including forestry and fishing) is returned at 8,292,692 

 (39-92 per cent, of the total), as against 8,236,496 (4671 

 per cent.) in 1882. It thus appears that the total number of 

 persons has increased, although the ratio to the population 

 has considerably declined. As it was seen above that the 

 total number of persons (including children, etc.) directly 

 dependent upon agriculture has declined during the fifteen 

 years, it follows that the whole of this decline can be attri- 

 buted to the dependents, who have indeed decreased from 

 10,564,046 to 9,833,918, and to the domestic servants, whose 

 numbers are 374,697 against 424,913 in 1882. 



Comparing agriculture with industries, we find that the 

 industrially occupied class numbers only 8,281,230, or less 

 than the agricultural. Here there has been a great increase 

 in the dependents, as well as in the occupied, and we find a 

 much larger proportion of persons (compared with the 

 number of workers) dependent upon industry than upon 



