CENSUS OF BRITAIN
SMALL INCREASE IN POPULATION NO SERIOUS MIGRATION FROM COUNTRY TO TOWN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 23. The recent census, the largest ever recorded, gives Britain’s population as 42,767,530, an increase on the past ten years of 7 per cent. The number of males is 20,430.623. The population of England is 35,678,530, of whom 16,984,087 are males; that of Wales is 2,206,712, and that of Scotland 4,882.287, of whom the males number 2,348,403. The population of London is 4,483.219, an increase of .0 per cent.; of Birmingham, 919,438, an increase of 9.4 per cent.; of Liverpool, 803,118, an increase of 6.3 per cent.; of Manchester, 730,551, an increase of 2.3 per cent.; of Sheffield, 490,724, an increase of 6.6 per cent. ;aud of Leeds, 458,320, an increase of 1.2 per cent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn (Rec. August 24, 5.5 p.m.j London, August 23. The census shows a population increase of only about half of the increase in the preceiling intercensnl period. There haS
been no serious migration from country to town. The population of Greater London is 7,476,167.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 6
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181CENSUS OF BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 6
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