DOMINION'S POPULATION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1983, 13 February 1914, Page 8

DOMINION'S POPULATION

A .return of population published in the current "Gazette" supplies the following particulars :— '■ Males. Females. tfot&l. Estimated populavtipn ! (eioiusivo ot llfioriiS 'to December 31, 1912 553,212,499,415 1,052,62? tfot'd-l increase during 1913 v 15,890. 16345' 32,035 Estimated population- ■ (exclusive of Maoris. - ... -etc., on Pec. 51, 1913 669,102 515,560 .1,084,662 Maori population, •Census, IMI. ..„■ 26,475 25,369 ' 49,844 Population <> J Cpok . . , and other Pacific -islands annexed in 1901, Census. 1911.... 6,449' 6,149 12,598 Total estimated . ' • population of the . ■ • Dominion -on ' ' ,B*c. 31, 1913 ... 602,026 545.-078 1,147,104 Batiinnt-ediiieaii popu. foti&n of New ' ■ ■ Zealand-feck- ■ • eive of Maoris ■ • • ' and Cook, and " other Pacifte > . . ■ ' . Islands) for ' ■■; the year 1913 ... 561,157 507,488 1,068..6« r . ' ■ JlaJse. Feftalcs. T'i. -Births roistered in 1913 i<42B 13,507 27,935 Death* tagistered itt 1913 5,869 -4,259 iojl9 Eiccas 6f Wrth3 over deaths :..... .„...._ 8,559 9,257 17,816 Arrivals in the Dominion .during ISI3 25.891 18,697 44,-568 Ufcparturcii from the Do- * minion during 1913 18,560 11,505 ■ 30,369 EiecssiolWrivals oTer . departures 7,331. 6,883 14,219 Ohinose.—Cliiites-R are included in the .population givteh above. The nuinher in- Aew"Zealand on Dceember 31, 1913, was estimated to bo '2,516, of whom 112 wwe-females. ' ■ Hnnarfe—Exeiuding Maoris, ' the population* increased by '32,030, ■ or. at tins rate of 3.04.. per cent., during the :.vefl.r. 'To this increase.. escess of births orer deaths, contributed 17,816, and. excess, of arrivals over departures tho birth-rate for the .Dominion in 1913.was 26.14 per 1000 of mean population, and the ■ death-rate 9.'47, as against- 26.48 and 8.37 respectively in The deaths iu-1913 (10,119) ffcre more tlwn the number registered in 1912 (9214) b,v 905, and -the rate per 1000 ro-sft. from 8.87 '.to 9.47. Tho number of aiiarriages (excluding those contracted botiveen Maoris) sotenwised in 1913 is estimator at 9050, Riving-a r-ato'of 8.47 poi' 1000 of the moan papulation, against 9149 and 8.81, ■flift actualnuinlrar and rate in 1912. Tlie fluctuations oF tho birth, death, and mnrriago rate's for the last ten ■yttirs are as under:— . ■ ■ •

Jlii'th- Beats. Marftofte. ' rtrte. rate, rotu •15M' ■..:. 26.94 m 826 IMS' 27.8S -9.'.7 828 - m ...-. 27.ee . 9.31 mI 1907 ,27.30, 10.93 891 .1908 27.45 9.6T 8 82 'm 2?.Z9 9,52 • ft.33 ■ iOlt) 26.17 9.71 8.36 - mi M.9? 9.59 8,70 i§s2 26.« 8.47' SJt 1553 :..... £6.14* ».«* . in*. to feTirio-n.