GROWING POPULATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1920, Page 5

GROWING POPULATION.

INCREASE IN BIRTHRATE. GAIN BY immigration. An increase of 22,581 in the. European population of the Dominion durinc the iKt rnue months of the year i 9 shown "J the Government Statistician's esti-iT-T' J' le J nm:use in the whole of was 3«j035; in the following years \ n V,? w ® re sra aHer increases, and 'in !lll<l decreases owing to the departure of the Expeditionary Forces. iA7m Ji 16 Wtts an " lcre ase of Win, and last year, owing to th«a re--s('oVl° th<! iorCe6 ' t! ' 6 increase was

he outstanding feature of this year's statistics the recovery in the 'b'cih isle. The total number of births to September 30 was 22,041, showin" mi increase above the number in the corresponding period of last year of ■fl'l'-. This number is equal to. an annual rate of 25.68 per 1000 of mean population, as compared with a rate'of only 21.55 for the year 1019. The rite lor 191.1 was 26.14, and subsequent years showed a decline to 23.44 in 10JS. The number of births in each quarter fir this year have beon ; First quarter, /Ml; -second, 7412; third, 7098. During the nine months the population has increased by 8943 by excess of arrivals over departures. In 1913, the increase by immigration was 14,210,' and last year, excluding troops of the Expeditionary Force, it was 1054. The population of the Dominion as at September 30 i& estimated, as follows;—■ Males ............ 001.227 Females .. 585,75!) Total ~-r r ljlß6,9S'<i Pacific Islands ; „ v ,, 12,797 Maoris 49,770 Grand total ... 1,249,559 The figures for the Maori and Pacific Islands populations are those of the 191 ft census.