THE EMPIRE IN FIGURES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 448, 5 March 1909, Page 4

THE EMPIRE IN FIGURES.

3*3,7-18,000' PEOPLE AND 11,211,000 SQUARE MILES. ' Somo idea of the immense size of the British Empire and of the teeming millions who inhabit it is obtained from the latest volume of statistical abstracts, which was published re-cently-(says the London "Daily Mail"). The total area of the British colonies, possessions, and protectorates is 11,211,000 square miles, supporting a population of 343,748,000 subjects. Of this British India comprises 1,097,821 square miles, with 231,855,533 inhabitants; the Feudatory Native States, which are not included, possessing 675,267 squnrfe miles and 62,161,519 people. The subjoined- extracts from the financial tables indicate the richness of the Empire, and relate to 1907:— Possession. Expenditure. Revenue £ ,C British India 70,684,900 71,177,500 Commonwealth of Australia jb,2C0,446 New Zealand 8,320,580 9,154,295 Natal 3,081,914 8,471,932 Capo of Good Hope ... 8,3-19,310 7,701,192 Transvaal 4,618,071 4.450,867 West Africa 2,722,756 2,758,207 Canada 10,594,777 13,971,473 West Indies 2,422,712 2,664,076 The total imports, including bullion and 6pecie, into the various British dominions amounted in 1907 to .£378,155,000, •of which was sent from the United Kingdom, ,£64,5-19,000 from Britisli possessions and ,£136,619,000 from foreign #ountries. . The largest customer of the United Kingdom was India, which took imports worth .£77,773,925. Australia was next with .£31,956,4-17, followed by Canada, ,£l9 700.HG9; British South Africa, .£16,237,303; and New Zealand, .£10,278,019. Tho total value of the exports from the British possessions was ,£399,273,000, of which ,£175,667,000 went to tho United Kingdom, ,£59,047,000 to British possessions, and ,£101.')')!},000 to foreign countries. British South Africa, with .C-1"),375,259, sent the largest amount "Home," followed by Austrtilia, .£33,975,579; British India. ,£32.724,414; and British North America, ,£27,950,517. The British Empire is the greatest gold producer in the world. Tho Transvaal conies first of its various States with a product of Jc27.410.0n0 in 1907, Australia is second with .£13,511.000,' Southern Rhodesia third with £2,178,000, and India and. Now Zealand nearly w.ual in the foil! 11l place, with each li.;lit|i nvei two millions worth of output. The total product of the Empire was almost exactly .£50,000,000 worth of gold in 1907.