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RACIAL PROBLEMS

IN

HUNGARY

By

SCOTUS VIATOR

Appendice 4

 

 

 

 

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APPENDIX IV

POLYGLOT HUNGARY: ITS POPULATION ACCORDING TO RACE (INCLUDING CROATIA)

 

1840

(Fιnyes).

1853

(Haia).

1880

1890

 

1900

 

1900

Revised.[[1]] [2]

 

 

 

(Drawn from  the Hungarian Statistical Year Book).

 

 

  

  

  

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

  

  

  

Magyar

4,812,759

5,413,327

6,445.487  

4.2

7,426,730

42.8

8,679,014  

45.4

7,880,317

German

1,273,677

1,492,601

1,953,911  

12.5

2,107,577

12.2

2,114,423  

11

1,897,725

Slovak

1,687,256

1,884,696

1,864,529  

11.9

1,910,279

II

2,008,744  

10.5

1,998,203

Roumanian

2,202,542

2,488,036

2,405,085  

15.4

2,591,905

14.9

2,785,265  

14.6

2,781,058

Ruthene

442,903

478,905

356,062  

2.3

383,392

2.2

427,825  

2.2

417,679

Croat

429,868

886,079

1,248,617

2,352,339  

15

1,554,000

9

1,670,905  

8.7

1,663,400

Serb

828,365

1,043,988

—

 

1,057,264

6.1

1,042,022  

5.5

1 ,041 ,966

Jew

244,035

276,620

624,826[3]

—  

707,9617

—  

826,2227

—  

851,378

Others

72,922

77,667

264,689

1.7

318,251

1.8

394,142

2.1

390,614

 

 —  

14,458,000

15,642,102  

—  

17.349,398

—  

19,122,340  

—

19,122,340

 

increase of population per cent.

 Average, 1896-1900  

1904.

Roumanian

5.8

10.3

Ruthene

15.5

16.1

Serb

9.6

11

 

Average, 1896-1900.

1904

Magyar

13

12.6

German

 —  

 —

Slovak .

13.9

14.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would thus appear that the Magyars are increasing less rapidly than ten years ago, while the Slovaks, Roumanians, Ruthenes, and even Serbs, are increasing more rapidly. Perhaps the spread of the "two child" system among the Magyar peasantry partly accounts for this. Emigration among Slovaks, Magyars and Ruthenes is approximately the same ; the fact that Roumanians and Serbs emigrate less accounts for their higher rate of increase.


 

[1] This note is missing from original

[2] Here I have subtracted all unbaptized Jews who are classed as Magyars, and also a round sum of 200,000 for the Gipsies, whom the official statistics arbitrarily class as Magyars. The Jews are of course good Hungarians, but to class them as Magyars is a ludicrous misrepresentation.

[3] In these years the Jewish figures are also contained in those of the other races, so that the Magyar and German figures must be regarded as in reality decidedly lower.