POPULATION OF SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14301, 22 February 1910, Page 5

POPULATION OF SYDNEY.

SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—

Sydney, February 21. , Tub population of Sydney and suburbs at the end of last, year was 605,900, an increase of 13,800 on the previous year. ■

Marriages increased by 393 and births • totalled 15,461, the highest on record, illegitimates numbering 10 per cent. Deaths

numbered 10.26 per 1000 of population, the lowest rate on record. . '

Sydney now occupies seventh place in the list of great cities of the British Empire, Melbourne being tenth,- according to last year's figures, but there has been a considerable increase since then, which may alter her position. The population of the chief cities of the Empire is as follows:—v

London ...

... 4,795,757

Calcutta ...

... 992,718

' Bombay ... ' ... . 977,822 Glasgow ... ... - ... 859,715 • Liverpool ... ... ..." 753,203 Manchester ... ... 649251 Sydney 605,900 Birmingham , ... ~..- 558,155 Madras ... ... ... 548,974 Melbourne . ... ... 543,600 The population of other great cities is:—• New York. 4,422,685 Paris, 2,747,599 Chicago, 2,166,055 ;. Berlin, 2,102,727 ; Vienna, 2,021,052; St. Petersburg, • 1,505.200 ; Philadelphia, 1,532,738; Moscow, 1,411,900 ; Buenos Ayres, . 1,146,865 j Hamburg, 844,579 ; * Rio .- de ; Janeiro, 628,675 ; Boston, „ 609,762 ; Copenhagen, 445.000 San Francisco, 400,000.