WORKERS’ CENSUS
TAKEN BY LEAGUE AUSTRALIA ’ S PERCENTAGE RAPIDLY INCREASES MOTHERLAND OUTDISTANCED Received Dec. 26, 5.5 p.m. GENEVA, Dec. 23. Within fifteen years Australia will show the world ; s greatest percentage of active wealth-producing citizens, and Britain will be sixth on the list. This is the conclusion reached from the statistics of the League of Nations compiled for the International Economic Conference, to be held in May, 1927. These estimate that Australia, which hiad 2,911,0(10 workers between the ages of fifteen and seventy in 1910, will have 4,688.000 in 1941, an increase of 61 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 the declining birth rate. Her working population in 1941 is estimated at 27,383,000 compared with 28,4000,000 in 1910.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19730, 27 December 1926, Page 7
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148WORKERS’ CENSUS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19730, 27 December 1926, Page 7
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