MILLION AND HALF
POPULATION GROWS MORE MEN THAN WOMEN School books which describe New Zealand's population as “a million and a-quarter” will soon have to be amended. The figure is almost a million and a-half. According to the latest Abstract of btaostics, the population of the Dominion at December 31, 1928, was 1,450,090. Without the native race the population was estimated to be 1.385,401. If the people of Cook, Tokelau and other Pacific Islands and of Western Samoa are added, the figure reaches 1,507,943. In the Dominion proper the number has risen from 1,318,884 in 1922, an increase of 131,206 people in five years. There has been a gradual tendency since 1922 for the males to increase their preponderance over the females. Five years ago there were 645,524 European males and 619,833 females, a difference of 25,651. In 1923, the difference was 25,901. Last year there was a preponderance of 28,615, the total figures for Europeans being 707,008 males and 678,393 females.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 349, 9 May 1928, Page 1
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162MILLION AND HALF Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 349, 9 May 1928, Page 1
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