MEN AND WOMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 15 November 1906, Page 3

MEN AND WOMEN.

The Statistisches Jahrbuch, published by the German Government, is a source to which writers on the comparative statistics of nations go for information. In the Jahrbuch for this year the statistics of population as to sex are collated. Some countries, as France, and China, give only che total population, without distinguishing the sexes, and they have to be left out of the calculation. In Europe the only countries in which the number of males is given as exceeding that of females are Servia, Roumania, Bulgaria, and Greece, all of which are Balkan States. The Teutonic, Latin and Slav nations have a slight excess of females, which is often only a few thousands, and rarely as much as 800,000. In every other continent most of the nations have an excess of male population; thus, in the western world, Jamaica, Mexico and Venezuela alone have an excess of males. The United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries have an excess of males. So far as accurate statistics have been obtained in Africa, only the French possessions and the Gold Coast Colony have an excess of females, while in Egypt, the French possessions, Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony males are more numerous. In none of the Asiatic countries are females in excess of males, according to the statistics. In the Philippines the males are in excess of the females.