====================================================================== More More Excess AGE Male Female male female of female population ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Under 10 years 6,904,732 6,871,599 33,133 -- -- From 10 to 15 years 2,925,918 2,912,573 13,345 -- -- “ 15 “ 21 “ 3,179,813 3,162,448 17,365 -- -- “ 21 “ 30 “ 4,251,204 4,293,775 -- 42,571 -- “ 30 “ 40 “ 3,669,656 3,731,556 -- 61,900 -- “ 40 “ 50 “ 2,770,451 2,923,228 -- 152,777 -- “ 50 “ 60 “ 2,053,085 2,320,273 -- 267,188 -- “ 60 “ 70 “ 1,300,637 1,545,808 -- 245,171 -- “ 70 years up 681,751 868,671 -- 186,920 -- ----------------------------------------------------- 27,737,247 28,629,931 63,845 956,527 892,684 This table shows that up to the twenty-first year the number of boys exceeds the number of girls.[78] This excess of boys is due to the fact that everywhere more boys than girls are born. The following number of boys and girls, for instance, were born in the German empire: During the year 1872 for 100 girls 106.2 boys “ “ “ 1884 “ 100 “ 106.2 “ “ “ “ 1900 “ 100 “ 106.0 “ “ “ “ 1905 “ 100 “ 106.3 “ “ “ “ 1907 “ 100 “ 106.3 “ But the male sex dies younger than the female sex; especially during infancy more boys than girls die. Our table shows that from the twenty-first year on the female population exceeds the male. The following figures show the death-rate of male and female inhabitants in Germany: During the years Male Female 1872–1875 29.5 26.3 1876–1880 27.8 24.5 1881–1885 27.3 24.2 1886–1890 25.8 23.1 1891–1895 24.6 22.1 1896–1900 22.6 20.0 1901–1905 21.0 18.8 [79] [79] Hygienic and ethnological conditions of the German Empire. Berlin, 1907--During the year 1907 for every 100 female deceased there were 109.3 male. The table on page 159 furthermore shows that at the true marriageable age, between the twenty-first and fiftieth year the female sex exceeds the male sex by 257,248 persons (in the year 1890 by 422,519) and between the fiftieth and seventieth year by 699,279 (in the year 1890 by 566,400). In Germany as in England the number of old women increases each year. A great disproportion, that constantly increases, is furthermore met with among widowed and divorced persons. According to the census of 1890 and 1900 there were the following numbers of widowed persons in Germany: 1890 1900