ABSTRACT Historians and historical demographers strongly disagree about the size of the population of Lithuania within contemporary borders in 1914. According to Soviet era sources, it was 2,828,000, while contemporary publications provide a figure of 3,350,500. The main difficulty is incongruity between the limits of administrative units of the Russian empire and the eastern border of independent Lithuania and its many changes between 1918 and 1940. For the first time, we provide an annual time series of the population of Lithuania from 1897 to 1914. According to our estimate, the population increased from 2,668,914 on 28 January 1897 to 3,057,126 by 1 January 1914.

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1897 年至 1914 年间立陶宛的人口规模（在当代边界内）

摘要 历史学家和历史人口学家对 1914 年立陶宛当代边界内的人口规模存在强烈分歧。根据苏联时代的资料，这一数字为 2,828,000，而当代出版物提供的数字为 3,350,500。主要困难是俄罗斯帝国行政单位的界限与独立的立陶宛东部边界之间的不协调及其在 1918 年和 1940 年之间的许多变化。我们首次提供了从 1897 年到立陶宛人口的年度时间序列1914. 根据我们的估计，人口从 1897 年 1 月 28 日的 2,668,914 人增加到 1914 年 1 月 1 日的 3,057,126 人。