3 138 155 152 150 136 144
1880 150 137 152 149 140 141 149
1881 146 136 160 150 162 142 151
1882 143 135 164 149 157 140 155
1883 142 136 157 150 161 136 154
1884 144 136 157 153 164 136 151
1885 139 138 152 149 158 136 144
1886 139 137 155 149 158 134 141
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Average 153 147 161 155 156 141 156

Year Scotland Ireland Denmark Norway Sweden Hungary
1873 155 96 162 145 146 226
1874 152 92 164 153 145 214
1875 148 91 170 157 140 218
1876 150 99 171 154 141 198
1877 144 93 161 151 137 182
1878 134 95 148 146 129 187
1879 128 87 147 135 126 205
1880 132 78 152 133 126 182
1881 139 85 156 128 124 198
1882 140 86 154 134 127 203
1883 140 85 154 132 128 205
1884 135 91 156 137 131 201
1885 129 86 151 133 133 ...
1886 124 84 142 131 ... ...
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Average 139 89 156 141 133 202

These figures are interesting in more respects than one. In the first
place, they prove that, in all the countries named, the number of
marriages _declines_. Like Germany, all these countries show the highest
frequency of marriage in the beginning of 1872, and then follows a drop
in most of them. Hungary comes out best; Ireland, on the contrary,
worst, showing the smallest figures of all. The ejectment of the Irish
population from their lands, and the ever greater concentration of the
same in the hands of the large landlords, express themselves clearly in
the figures given.[79]

Industrial conditions have a marked effect upon the number of marriages.
As the former has, on an average, become ever more unfavorable since the
middle of the seventies, the decline in marriages is not astonishing.
But not th