POPULATION STATISTICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 26 February 1915, Page 5

POPULATION STATISTICS.

BIRTH-RATE SLIGHTLY LOWER. EXCESS OF ARRIVALS OVER DEPARTURES. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association^ Wellington, last night. Tables showing the number of arrivals in and departures from New Zealand during the year 1914 are published in the Gazette to-night, Tlie total number of persons who arrived in the Dominion during 1914 was 37,G4G, and departures during the year numbered 32,500, the excess of arrivals over departures for the year thus being '5140. According to returns furnished by the immigration officers, '857!) persons arrived from the United Kingdom, and 2574 persons departed therefor during the year. From' the Commonweal.'■ of Australia arrivals are returned as numbering 25,007 persons, and departures thereto as 20.003 'persons. Arrivals and departures from and to other countries were 3100 and 32.10 persons respectively. Of 37.040 persons wiho came to New Zealand last year, 420'.). or 11.3.1 per cent, of the total, were children, i.e.,-under 12 yc»:irs of age: r.nd of 32, r >o(> departures the children numbered 2810, or 5.07 per cent. The departures shown do not include the 11.00S members of the expeditionary forces which have left the Dominion since the outbreak of the war. The Cov-n-nmciit Statistician estimate ihe tot.nl population of the Dominion on December 31-st last at 1.155.435. of whom 001 OSS wer.. males and 557.353 females. Tlie "-cevss of births over deaths durin« the vear was 1R.102, and th" net in-oH-ase for th- year was 11.3-34. The birth-rate for til" Dominion in 1014 was 25.00 ner 10(10 of the mean population, and th.. d'ath rate 0.31. as nwiKi 20.14 end 0.17 resnertivel- in 1013. The <l"aths in 1014 (10.1401 v.vv mor" than ill-, iMimbr-v registered in 1113 (10 1101 In- 27. bnf the rate per 1000 fell from 0,17 to 0,11.