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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1919, Page 10

The population of Australia is now over 3,000,000, exclusive of full-blooded aborigines. This is the latest estimate of the Commonwealth Statistician (says the Melbourne Age), and it does not go beyond the year 1918, when the figure was Bet at 5.030,470. This is a marked increase on the 1000 figures, which rave the population ns 3,7Cfi.330. It is somewhat, remarkable thai whereas large numbers of men were out of the country during the war period, the population elalistics wore inclined to go up in 1917 and 191S, at a time when (he exodus of soldiers had probably reached its zenith. From 1900 to 1914 there was a steady increase in population, but in 1015 there was a falling off of about 0000. Again in 1910 the figures went down further by about 50,000, but in 1017 they returned 1o the 1914 mark. Thence* they jumped in 1018 to over 5,000,000, and arc probably continuing to increase. There was R. steady increase in births over deaths from 1914 to 1918, but 'in 1915-10-17 there was an excess of emigration over immigration. In 1918 the position was reversed, the excess of immigration over emigration beis: 19,67°