AUSTRALIA’S GREAT FUTURE
World’s Coming Wealth Producer [By Electric Cable—Copyright.—Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) GENEVA', Dec. 23. Within fifteen years, Australia will show the world’s greatest percentage of active wealth-producing citizens, and Britain will he sixth on the list. This is the conclusion reached from statistics of the League of Nations, compiled for the International Economic Conference to he held in May, 1927. These estimate that Australia, which had 2,011,000 workers between the ages of fifteen and seventy in 1910, will have 4,688,000 in 1941, an increase of sixty-one per cent. The United States, Italy, Sweden, Germany and Japan will all have higher percentages than Britain. The only country expected to show an actual decrease in workers will be France, owing to war losses and declining birthrate. Her working population in 1914 was estimated at 27,383,000, compared with 28,400,000 in 1910.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3490, 27 December 1926, Page 7
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145AUSTRALIA’S GREAT FUTURE Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3490, 27 December 1926, Page 7
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