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Statistics of estates| This Page provides some population statistics by estate for the 19th century. The information is from a book of R.Brambe /Brambe/ and from a paper of E.Dunsdorfs /Dunsdorfs2/ |
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1813
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1823
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1833
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Number
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%
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Number
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%
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Number
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%
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| Nobility | 378 |
1.39 |
841 |
2.08 |
913 |
1.81 |
| Clergy | 115 |
0.42 |
125 |
0.31 |
212 |
0.42 |
| Free persons | 23,161 |
85.25 |
37,280 |
89.40 |
43,373 |
85.94 |
| Exempts |
802
|
2.95
|
1463
|
3.62
|
3365
|
6.66
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| Peasants (Serfs) |
2714
|
9.99
|
1059
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4.59
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2663
|
5.27
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Total
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27,170
|
100
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40,411
|
100
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50,526
|
100
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| Exempts were various groups of people excluded out of the lists of tax payers. |
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1848
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1861
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Number
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%
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Number
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%
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| Nobility |
1426
|
2.4
|
2261
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3.4
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| Clergy |
247
|
0.4
|
369
|
0.5
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| Honorary citizens |
209
|
0.4
|
570
|
0.8
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| Merchants |
1184
|
2.0
|
1918
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2.8
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| Zunft members |
8510
|
14.5
|
9120
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13.5
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Petty bourgois
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15,589
|
26.6
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16,421
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24.5
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| Workers |
27,948
|
30.6
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18,206
|
27.0
|
| Home servants |
3615
|
6.2
|
...
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| Peasants |
1282
|
2.2
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8111
|
12.0
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| Retired militaries and their families |
3030
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5.2
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4851
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7.2
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| Foreigners |
1976
|
3.4
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3721
|
5.5
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| Others |
3594
|
6.1
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1874
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2.8
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Total
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58,610
|
100
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67,422
|
100
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In the group Others the civil clerks of lower ranks, some exempts, the soldier children, the kantonists etc. are included The next table provides information on the estates in the region of Latvia by the ethnic origin of their holders. The Table is based on the results of the Empire Census of 1897. More information about the problems of recalculating these results for the region of Latvia could be found in another Page of the Site. The table was calculated by E.Dunsdorfs in his paper /Dunsdorfs2/. |
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Estates
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Ethnicities
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Latvians
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Russians
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Germans
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Poles
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Jews
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Others
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Total
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| Hereditary nobility |
224
|
6005
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7356
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10,750
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5
|
418
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24,758
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| Personal nobility |
954
|
4267
|
3815
|
1455
|
62
|
115
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10,668
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| Clergy |
290
|
1390
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821
|
70
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1
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63
|
2635
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| Honorary citizens |
402
|
1337
|
4013
|
85
|
165
|
98
|
6100
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| Merchants |
569
|
1179
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3237
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54
|
2506
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63
|
7608
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| Petty bourgois |
52,635
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51.531
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86,733
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18,146
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118,092
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4702
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331,839
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| Peasants |
1,261,061
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167,814
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17,908
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33,951
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1380
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43,526
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1,525,640
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| Other |
2482
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1566
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13,429
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577
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489
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1596
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20,139
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Total
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1,318,617
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235,089
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137,312
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65,088
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122,700
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50,581
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1,929,387
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| The part of this table concerning Jews is copied to another Page and also discussed there in more details. |