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1807 to 1814; in 1816 it rose to 1.02 per cent, and during the
entire period from 1816 to 1826, it remained very high. After a
fall in the succeeding period, it attained, during the very good
business year of 1854, a new maximum of 0.86 per cent, a figure
which has not since been reached. The average for the years
1891-1895 was 0.65 per cent.

Compared with conditions elsewhere in Europe, the number
of marriages in our country is small. For the years 1881—1890,
the number per 100 inhabitants for all Europe was calculated
to be 0.80, Eastern Europe being 0.89 and Western Europe 0.74;
Sweden 0.63, Denmark 0.73, Germany 0.78, while Servia appears
with a maximum of 1.11 per cent.

With regard to the frequency of marriages, there is some
difference between towns and rural districts, the number of marriages
in Norway, as elsewhere, being relatively larger in the former. This
has been more marked during the last 50 years, as the relative
number of marriages in the country, owing to the continual
migration of young men and women to the towns, has diminished
more than in the towns. This will be better seen from the following
table, showing the frequency of marriages from 1846 to 1895.

	The Kingdom	Rural Districts	Towns
1846—1855 ...... ....	0.78	0.77	0.85
1856—1865 ......	0.72	0.71	0.81
1866—1875 ...... . .	0.68	0.66	0.78
1876—1885 ......	0.69	0.67	0.78
1886—1805...... ....	0.64	0.59	0.80

As there are considerably more women than men in Norway,
it follows that a relatively larger number of women remain
unmarried, or in other words, that the frequency of marriages is
rather greater in the case of men than of women.

If the number of marriages in Norway is comparatively small
when compared with several other countries, this is due partly to
an age-classification of the population that is unfavourable to this
state — the quota of marriageable men and women being comparatively
small —, and partly to the fact that in Norway, as in the other
Scandinavian countries, marriages are generally contracted at a later age

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