QUEENSLAND CENSUS

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 2

QUEENSLAND CENSUS

INCREASING POPULATION Since the 1921 census, Queensland’s population has grown by 25.3 per cent, to 947,543, according to an official summary of the 1933 census which recently has been issued by the Commonwealth Statistician. This increase is the greatest of any State, excepting Western Australia, where the increase was 31.9 per cent The average increase in the population of all States was 22 per cent. 917 In Queensland there were 49<,-‘ 17 males and 450,317 females, and, notwithstanding the preponderance of males in the whole State, there was an excess of 3,438 females in the metropolitan area. The rate of increase in the population in Brisbane was aimosu double that of the country, and the proportion of the total population located in the metropolitan area increased from 27.9 per cent, in 1921 to 31.8 per cent, in 1933. The total number of children of the ages of six to fourteen, inclusive, was 167,133. The number receiving instruction at Government schools totalled 131,041, or 78 per cent., those attending private schools numbered 29 421, or 17 per cent., and 7,83.5 children, or 4.6 per cent., were stated to be receiving instruction at home. Since the 1921 census, the number attending Government schools increased by 11 per cent., while those attending private schools increased by 25 per cent, during the intercensal period, the number of children of school age increased by only 16 per cent., which is a symptom of the falling birth rate. At the 1933 census, 57.6 per cent, of the population in Queensland were never married, 37.8 per cent, were married 4.5 per cent, wore widowed and 0.1 'per cent, ivero divorced. Since 1921 the number never married increased by 18.6 per cent., those married by 33.8 per cent, and the divorced bv 2.28 per cent. "Although the number of foreign nationals in Queensland has increased since 1921 by 32 per cent., compared with an increase of 25 per cent, in the number of British nationality, the change in the proportion of foreign nationals relative to the total population is very small. In 1921 there were 132 foreign nationals per 10,000 of the total population, and in the year 1933 there were 138 per 10,000, so that 98.6 per cent, of the population are British subjects. The greatest increases numerically among the foreign nationals were:— Italian 3,602, Greek 447, Finnish 349, and Jugoslavian 271. Those of Chinese nationality decreased by 1,574 (48 per cent.), Japanese by 313, Dutch by 250, and German by 245. The number of breadwinners, including pensioners, in Queensland at June 30, 1933, was 448,313, of whom 350,152 were males and 97,861 females. Pensioners totalled 32,959. Including pensioners and unemployed, two-thirds of the male breadwinners had incomes under £3 a week and three-fourths of the females had incomes tinder £2 a iveek.