European Statistics

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 20, 1872

European Statistics.

The following statements are valuable as showing not only the present population of the countries of Europe, but the relative strength, in numbers, of Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, in the different nationalities. They are from The Methodist, compiled from recent authorities, and may therefore be considered, in round numbers, as reliable:—

The changes produced in the map of Europe by recent wars, illustrate the tendency of the age to the massing of power in great nationalities. According to a Berlin paper, Europe had before the Italian war fifty-six States; it has now eighteen, with a population of 300,000,000. The principal States in Europe with a population of more than twenty-five million, are: Russia (71), Germany (40), France (36½), Austro-Hungary (36), Great Britain (32), and Italy (26½); their total population is therefore four-fifths of that of the whole of Europe. A century ago, before the partition of Poland, the Great Powers only possessed one-half of the then population of Europe—thus: Russia, 18 millions, Austria, 17; Prussia, 5; England, 12; and France, 26; total, 80. The number of Roman Catholics in Europe generally is now 148 millions—35½ in France, 28 in Austria, 26 in Italy, 16 in Spain, and 14½ in Germany; of Greek Catholics, 70 millions—54 in Russia, 5 in Turkey, 4 in Roumania, and three in Austria; of Protestants, 71 millions—25 in Germany, 24 in England, 5½ in Sweden and Norway, 4 in Russia, and 3½ in Austria; of Jews, 4,800,000—1,700,000 in Russia, 822,000 in Austria, 1,300,000 in Hungary, and 500,000 in Germany. Dividing Europe into nationalities, there are 82,200,000 of the Slavonic race, 97,500,000 of the Latin races, and 93,500,000 of the Germanic races.