POPULATION OF THE EARTH.
' (Froto The Times.) The fourth yearly issue of Bebm and Wagner's| now well-known' statistical work on the population of the earth has just been .published. Their estimate' of the.whole of the globe for the present year amounts to 1,423,917,000, and the area of the landsurface they calculate to be 51,340,800 square miles, thus giving an average density of about 28 people to one square mile. These data are apportioned among the various divisions of„ the globe as nearly as possible as follows : . Density Square Inhabi- per miles. tants. square «-•: '•• mile. Europe . 3,776,490 309,17.8,300 82 ' Abia v 17,079,383 824,548/500,48, ~ Africa . 11,415,894 and Poly- [ 3,381,210 4,748,600 1$ nesia ) America . 15,687,840 85,619,80 ft. 6£ The following are the .populations.of the various Stales of Europe, .according to latest estimates:— . Germany, 1875 . ... 42,723,2^2 Austro-Hungary, 1876 . .. 37,700,00 Swltzerlapd, 1870 . . 2,669,14', Netherlands, 1875 . . 3;809,52? Belgium, 1874 , . , 5,336,634 Luxemburg, 1875 . , 205,158 Russia, 1870. . ', . 71tf30,98Ur Sweden,.lß7o . . ... . 4,383,291 Norway, 1875 . . . 1,802,882 Denmark, 1876 . . . 1,903,000 France, 1872 . . . 36,102,921 Great Britain, 1876 V- , 33,450,000 , Spain, 1876 •. . ; . 16;55i,«4f* Andora -.■ '■:.'•'■ , r '.'•"' =:• [12,000 Portugal, 1874 . .'■ ' . 4,29.8,881 Italy, 1875 , .V .. %&&$&; Monaco, 1873*' . : ■ ; :: San Marino, 1874 . : ~-..- 7,816 European Turkey . . .$,500,000 Rod mania, 1873 . . 5,073.4)00 Servia, 1875 ... . , 1,377;068' Montenegro . . . . , . 190»000 Greece, 1870, ' . ,";"•" '".- ' The dates indicate the years in which | the data were obtained on which Behm \ and Wagner have based theirestimate. In the case of Great Britain, of course, the estimate is founded on the returns of the Registrar-General, /or there has been no formal ceusus since that of 1871. In' the case of other countries ~ in which the estimate is given'for the'years 1875 and ,1876, it;is generally of a regular census, for several Gonfcihental-Governments are not content, like .qurselyes, once every, ten yeara., ~ ' ? -I sj--
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Kumara Times, Issue 256, 31 July 1877, Page 2
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