Le Nord : revue internationale des Pays de Nord - 01.06.1942, Síða 63

SWEDISH EMIGRATION TO AMERICA
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Periods Excess of Births Net Result of Migrations Net Increase
Absolute F i g u r e s.
1751—1800 641,000 — 74,000 567,000
1801—1850 1,162,000 — 27,000 1,135,000
1851—1900 2,497,000 — 843,000 1,654,000
1901—1940 1,526,000 — 291,000 1,235,000
Relative Figu res (in per 1000).
1751—1800 6.2 — 0.7 5.5
1801—1850 8.3 — 0.2 8.7
1851—1900 11.5 — 3.9 7.6
1901—1940 6.5 — 1.2 5.3
The total excess of births between 1750 and 1940 was 5.83
millions, while the increase of the population only amounted
to 4.59 millions. No less than 1.24 millions were thus lost as
a result of migrations. Of this loss, only a very small proportion
took place prior to 1850. Two thirds took place during the
last half of the i9th century, and about one quarter during
the first decades of the 20th century. For earlier periods, only
figures for the net result of migrations are known, but from the
latter half of the i9th century both emigration and immigration
figures are available. These figures are however seen, on closer
examination, to be too low, especially as far as emigration is
concerned, some of the emigrations never having found their
way into the parish registers. Calculations show that this deficit
must amount to about one tenth of the total emigrations figure.
For the period 1751—1800 the Swedish population statis-
tician Professor Gustav Sundbárg estimates the average annual
emigration at about 2,500, his estimate of the annual immigra-
tion being 1000, or a little over. For the following 50 years he
estimates the average annual emigration at 1500, while the im-
migration figure is supposed to have remained the same as during
the previous period. During 1851—1900 the average annual
emigration is estimated at 20,400 and the corresponding immigra-
tion at 3,500. For the period 1901—1940, finally, the average
annual number of emigrants was about 14,000, and that of im-
migrants about 7,000.
Migration prior to 1850 was on such an insignificant scale
that it did not appreciably affect the population conditions of