Census of the British empire, 1901. : Report with summary and detailed tables for the several colonies, &c., area, houses, and population; also population classified by ages, condition as to marriage, occupations, birthplaces, religions, degrees of education, and infirmities.

  • Great Britain. Census Office.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Census of the British empire, 1901. : Report with summary and detailed tables for the several colonies, &c., area, houses, and population; also population classified by ages, condition as to marriage, occupations, birthplaces, religions, degrees of education, and infirmities. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The rate of increase, however, in certain of our Colonies where it had declined in previous years, for example, in Natal, the West Indies and Ceylon, shows a rising tendency in the last decennial period. It appears from the Report on the Census of Ceylon that the decline in the rates of increase for 1871-81 and 1881-91 was due to the decay of the coffee-growing industry, and that the upward tendency noted in the last decennium may be explained by the return of prosperity following the introduction of tea cultivation. On the other hand, in the Australian Commonwealth the rate of increase, which had been as high as 40°4 in the decennium 1881-91, fell in the next decennium to 18:6 ; the rates of increase for the several States showed wide yariation, being 5°3 in Victoria, 13:2 in South Australia, 17°6 in Tasmania, 20°0 in New South Wales, 26°3 in Queensland, and as high as 241°5 in Western Australia. Hil—DENSITY OF POPULATION. The relation between the area of a Country and the number. of its inhabitants is commonly expressed by one of three methods: (1) by stating the average number of persons living on each square mile or acre, (2) by stating the average number of square miles or acres available for each person, and (3) by stating the number of yards separating each individual, if the population were distributed uniformly over the surface of the whole Country. Adopting the first and perhaps the most convenient method of measuring the degree of ageregation of population it will be seen that the average density in the parts of the British Empire in each Continent was as follows :— Persons | Persons se per square —— per square mile. mile. British Empire ... eh ee 33°5 | Colonies, Dependencies, Protectorates, . | &e. (continued) :— United Kingdom ... | a, 342-4 In America... 2 oe od 1°9 Isle of Man and Channel Islands | 496°3 | North America ... oR ay 1-4 Colonies, Dependencies, Protectorates, West Indies and Central 82°5 &e. :— America. In Europe ... Ay | LHELAL27°S South America ... +e od 2°7 InfAsia ... ih io Ab PLILE1°7 In Australasia... ey, ds 1°6 Indian Empire ... i poh 172°0 Australian Commonwealth ... ro Other Possessions rs i 42-0 New Zealand ... A: an 78 In Africa | ... Li ah Meo 16°3 Other Possessions ROEM x a0) West Africa sf = a 52'0 South Africa... ah ke 4°] Other Possessions = +e 16-0 | In the United Kingdom there were 3424 persons to a square mile, and in the Indian Empire 172-0, while in the Dominion of Canada and in the Australian Commonwealth the density was as low as 1°4 and 1°3 persons per square mile respectively. 19809 ets Methods of expressing Density. Persons per square mile in the several parts of the Empire.
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