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x INTRODUCTION L I S T O F T A B L E S Table 1.1. Crude births and rates of reproduction, Bulgaria 34 Table 1.2. Percentage of age groups single in 1900 34 Table 2.1. Gender specific mortality rates in Bulgaria in the period 1906–1929 79 Table 4.1. Distribution of population in different age-groups per 1000 population 129 Table 4.2. Number of legitimate live-born children per 1000 married women up to the age of forty-five 134 Table 4.3. Birth rates, mortality rates, and natural population growth per 1000 in the period 1911–1940 138 Table 4.4. Population growth of Bulgaria’s major confessional groups for 1933–1936 144 Table 4.5. Population growth per 1000 of population for the period 1904–1936 145 Table 4.6. Population decline for the period 1909–1928 146 Table 4.7. Comparative population growth (%) in Europe and in the Balkans 156 Table 5.1. Cultivated land, permanently employed population in agriculture, capital, and income according to size of the agricultural farms in 1934 198 Table 5.2. Black-market producers’ prices for crops in 1944 (levs per kg) 201 Table 6.1. Bachelor penalty taxation as foreseen in the Law for Encouraging Marriages and Birth Rates, A Project 237 Table 6.2. Bachelor penalty tax as foreseen in the Bill for Large, Mnogodetni Bulgarian Families 237 ...

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