Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Population

Collection:: Economics Books

A females. In Iceland this difference is due solely to a higher death-rate among males than females. The struggle with nature has often proved comparatively as destructive to human life as war, when whole crews have been drowned in a single day. Formerly the surplus of women was still greater, as e. g. in 1801, when to every 1000 males there were 1192 females. This number in 1880 had fallen to 1123, and since ‘hen there has been a steady decline. If the population is classed according to age, the census of 1920 gives the following figures: Under 20 years . . . . . . . . . . 42,6 p.c. Between 20 and 60 years (productive age) 46.9 — Over 60 years. . . . « ® 3 10.3 If persons 15—20 years old and those aged 60—70 are included in the productive-age class, the figure of 62.6 per cent. of an able-bodied age is arrived at. Married and unmarried persons over 20 years of age were as fol- ows (census 1920): Males Females Unmarried . . . . . 38.4 p.c. 38.3 p.c. Married . 54.1 — 37.3 — Widowed 5.6 — 13.5 — Divorced 09 0.9 -- 100.0 p.c. 100.0 p.-. Since 1880 there has been a comparative increase in the number of marriages. Married males and females over 20 years old were then 48.2 p. c. and 39.9 p. c. respectively. In 1920 the number of married males had risen to 54.1 p. c., that of females to 47.3 p. ¢. The number of married persons in Iceland as compared with the number of the population is, however, still lower than in other European countries (except Ireland), and marriages are not so frequent, if we leave out of account a little increase during the Great War and the years im- mediately following. The average annual number of marriages per 1000 of population is as follows: 1876—1885 1886—1895 1896—1905 1906 —1915 19161920 1921 ~ 1925 1926 . . 1927 1928

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