SURPLUS WOMEN
A CHANGE IN PROPORTION. Returns issued by the British Board of Trade show that the population of the United Kingdom in the middle of last year was 45,900,000, an increase of 200,000 on the figures for the middle of 1929. Women exceeded the opposite sex by. 1,500,000, but they are in a lower proportion to men than they were in 1924, when they exceeded the opposite sex by 1,900,000, though the population was a million fewer. These surplus women are nearly all In England and Wales. Scotland has only a small excess, and the sexes are about equal in Northern Ireland. The -population of the Irish Free State, which is not included in t-he preceding figures, is given as 2,94 5,000. This is 60,000 below 1924. but an increase of 2000 on the 1929 figure.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18247, 7 February 1931, Page 14 (Supplement)
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