IRISH CENSUS FIGURES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1926, Page 20

IRISH CENSUS FIGURES

CONSTANT DRAIN BY WAY OF

EMIGRATION.

A total of 1,037,234 Irish-born persons are living in the United States-, while 367,747 come from England and Wales, 159,020 from Scotland, 105,033 from Australia, 03,301 from Canada, 54,419 from New Zealand* 12,289 from South Africa, and 8414 from India, according to Census' figures published in Dublin (says the "Christian Science Monitor"). "Altogether 1,817,457 persons born in: Ireland,' or 43 per cent, 'of the total population of the country, are living in other parts of the world., Ireland's proportion of immigrants is over twice that of Norway, its closest attendant;; Scotland has 14 per cent, Sweden 11, Austria' 9, England 2, Wales 6.7, Denmark 6.3, Germany 2.9, Russia 1.5, Prance .5,. and Spain- .2. Altogether in the United States there are 4,136,395 persons of Irish origin, including those who have one Irish-born parent. The figures'reveal the surprising fact that during the last fifteen years, tho population of all Ireland has fallen by 131,095 to .4,229,124, despite the fact that Northern Ireland returns are .slightly up, : It is also disclosed that ■while women out-niimber men in Northern Ireland, the. reverse is the case in Southern Ireland, there being 1066 females to 1000 males north, to 973 to 1000 south. This is partly accounted for by the fact that more women than men are emigrating. Other causes officially advanced are the withdrawal of. British troops and the dependants of Irish casualties in tho war, officers and men who joined tho British Army and remained abroad, migration to England of tho many disbanded in the Boyal Irish Constabulary. It is pointed out that the stream of migration from Ireland to tho United States contains a larger proportion of women than any other country. One remarkl able feature is that despite legislation to break up estates to provide small ■farms and holdings tho number of people on the land in the twenty-six counties of the Free State declined from 5,281,000 in 1841 to 1,878,000 in 19*6 while the population of the .towns lias only fallen from 1,207,000 in 1841 to 1,095,000. in 1926. -During that period the population of Dublin has increased from 285,000 to 413.,000, so that now with its townships it is slightly larger than Belfast.