EMPIRE POPULATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 2

EMPIRE POPULATION.

GROWTH OF SEVENTY YEARS. Taking 1841 as a starting point, Sir Atheistano Baines, who recently cad a paper before the Royal Statistical Society entitled “tinder the Grown,” said that from that date to the present the population of the Empire nad iuci eased from 203,221,000 to 418,735,000, or by 100 per cent. The population of the Empire in 1841 lias expanded by 08.2 per cent., and the balance of tlie increase, amounting to 37.8 per cent., was to lie credited to territoiy added since .that time. Naturally the area had not expanded in proportion to the , population, ami to tlie 8,520,041 square miles of 1841 the addition had been hut 2,804,002, or 32.9 per cent. Starting -with twentyfour persons per square mile, the ratio had increased to 37. mile, Thus, whilst the population had doubled, the pressure upon the land bad risen by nut little over one-half. The population of the Empirei outside India nad the United Kingdom had increased from 34,500,000 to 58,000,000. Today the population of 4187 millions comprised -15.2 millions in the Motnerlahd, 13.5 millions in other temperate countries, nearly eight millions, chiefly coloured, in South Africa, and 352 coloured millions in the tropics, of whom 37.2 were outside India, principally in Africa on “claims pegged out for posterity.” In Touud milliners, apart from the Mother Country, 18.7 millions wore under selfgovernment; half that number immediately under the direct administration of the Crown; 315 millions under the Government of India, and the lest, equally dependent, under other forms, upon the protection, care, and developing impetus for which we hud made ourselves responsible.