POPULATION OF THE WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2786, 8 March 1877, Page 3

POPULATION OF THE WORLD.

The Times published lately an abstract of an account of the population of the world annually pre tared by Drs Behm and Wagner, ahd pub!i_l >d by Perthes, from whioh it appears t.h„ . i-.hu population in 1876 may be taken at 1,123.917000, of whom nearly onefifth, or 3f'9178.000, resido in Europe, and probably 400 000000, or le«B than one-third, belong to 'i'.e European civilisation. Foursevenths of t\e word's people, or 824,000,000, reside in Am, r.nd half of these are Chinese. The popula"' n of America, natives included, in , both diyi-iona pf th. Continent, is only 85,00/3 000, "f whom wo imagine about half are of pure blood pd European descent. The population of^ Africa, arrived at, of .ooui-ae, by more or V'^s careful greasing; ja set down at 199,9QP,Qp0, of whom scarcely one per cent. c&n'beVfai' It set down #_ ' civilised men? apd little mor- A- o.n 10 por cunt, aa semi-civilised. The Turk'* 1 I. ;j?i re is estimated at 46,000^000, including "2<TOoo OHO jn "EgypfcV^nd ita depen-. doiidi'es, V •*.'."' ." T uniß and ' Tripoli; hut the popujatin- 'p Eiynpp js only 8 000.000, andin ASS 13:600000. Half the European popula- ' 'ilßft a 6t J T' • ' ki y at, least ia Bulgarian, and if we add lhe G--^., and Slays, we shall find that

the dominant oaate doea not exceed one-fourth of the whole, to whom the other three-fourfchaj are sacrificed. '