WEALTH-PRODUCING CITIZENS
INCREASE IN AUSTRALIA STATISTICS COMPILED BY LEAGUE (Rec. December 26, 5.5 p.m.) Geneva, December 23. Within fifteen years Australia will show the world’s greatest percentage of active wealth-producing citizens, and Britain will be sixth on the list. This is the conclusion reached from statistics the League of Nations has compiled for the International Economic Conference to be held in May, 1927. These estimate that Australia, which had 2,911,000 workers between the ages of 15 and 70 years in 1910, will have 4,688,000 in 1941, an increase of 61 per cent. The United States, Italy, Sweden, Germany, and Japan will all have higher percentages than Britain. 6 The only country expected to show an actual decrease in workers will be France. Owing to France’s war losses and declining birth-rate, her working population in 1941 is estimated at 27,383,000, compared with 28,400,000 in •no
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 9
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