THE WORLD’S WHITE MEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1161, 21 October 1913, Page 4

THE WORLD’S WHITE MEN.

A STUDY IN POPULATIONS

(By L. G. Chiozza Money.)

The growth of the world's population affords a deeply interesting study. We do not know within a hundred million or so bow many people there are in the world, but the aggregate is probably 1,600 to 1,700 millions. White men, of course, count for but a small part ot this great total. In the world there are about 580 millions of white people, and more than two-thirds of these form the population of Europe. The growth of the American nations has been rapid, and they have been recruited by a vast emigration from the Old World to the New, but the world leadership ol Europe is still overwhelming. Here is an approximate estimate, in round figures, of what the Europeon population will amount to at the end of the year: KI’KOI’KAN roi’U NATIONS, 1913. United Kingdom 45,600,000 France 39,800,000 German Empire 67,000,000 Russia 140,000,000 Austria 29,200,000 Hungary 21,400,000 Italy 35,200,000 Spain 19,800,000 Belgium 7,600,000 Holland 6,200,000 Sweden 5,600,000 Norway 2,500,000 Denmark 2,800,000 Switzerland 3.900,000 Portugal 5,400,000 Balkan Peninsula 24,000,000 Total 456,000,000 The estimate for the Balkan Peninsula is necessarily very rough, and I have not attempted to divide it up between the various Slates as they now (more or less) exist. TIIK WONDER OF RUSSIA. The two mest extraordinary things in this list are (1) the fact that Germany will soon have twice as many people as France, whereas at the time .of the FrancoGerman War the population of the two countries almost equalled oue another, and (2) the great predominance of Russia in point of numbers. Every lover of France, and every well-wisher of the world at large, must deplore the stagnation of the French population. In Britain and Germany the birthrate is falling rapidly, ai d Britain, unlike Germany, loses population through au artificially stimulated imigration.

Russia in Europe has now about 140,000,000 people, I f ° not think it is generally realised that Russia has in Europe alcne almost as many people as the United Kingdom, France and Germany put together. Outside Europe, the Russian Empire has about 35,000,000 subjects, making a total of about 175,000,000, and she is growing at the rate of about 3,500,000 a year, after allowing for emigration. Who shall say what part will come to be played in the world by this mighty peop'e in the time to come? Russia is the dark horse of civilisation. Her natural resources are as magnificent as the varied gifts of her people, and as undeveloped, and she is growing more rapidly than any other nation. Eet us turn to America. Here is an estimate of the population of all America at the end of this year ;

AMERICA’S POPULATIONS, 1913. United States of Am. 97,000,000 Canada 7,500,000 Newfoundland 200,000 Mexico 16,000,000

Argentina 6,800,000 Brazil 18,000,000 Chile 3.500,000 Peru 3,800,000 Bolivia 3,000,000 Uruguay 1,200,000 Nicaragua 500,000 Costa Rica 300,000 Guatemala 1,900,000 British Guinea and Honduras 300,000 British W. Indies 1,700,000 Colombia 4,000,000 Panama 400,000 Equador 1,200,000 Honduras 700,000 All America 167,000,000 A GAPING CONTUiUJNT. In spite of European migration to North and South America, the entire American Continent has as yet scarcely more than one-third as many people as Europe. The balance will doubtless be redressed, but not in the lifetime of the present generation. The United States will soon have 100 millions of people, and between natural increase and immigration she is growing at the rate of nearly two millions a year, or about one?ha!f the rate of growth of the Russian Empire.

Canada, in spite of her great efforts, has as yet scarcely more people than live in Greater London, hut nothing is more certain than that she will come to house a mighty population within her wide borders. The same is true of Argentina, of Brazil and of Mexico, to say nothing of the other nations of Latin America. The period of constant ebullition in South America is passing, and those who imagine it peculiar to South America should re-read the history of Europe. A considerable portion of the 167 million people of the America continent belong to other than the the white races. Even if we count half-breeds as whites, there are probably not more than 120 million white people in the entire continent. If we accept this figure, and add the 456 millions of Europe, we arrive at 576 millions as the white population of all Europe and all America, and that, of course, is almost the entire white popu’atiou of the world. There are, perhaps, seven million more whites in Australasia, South Africa and other places, making a total white population of the world in 1913 of about 583 millions. This is probably less than one-third of the entire population of the world.