AMERICA’S MILLIONS
LATEST POPULATION ESTIMATES. The Americas are growing apace, and have now a population of 275 million people, about half as many as the population of Europe. The estimate is made by the organ of the Carnegie Peace Endowment. Let us see how the 275 millions arc made up: North America— Millions United States 132 Canada 11 Mexico 19 Central America — 22 South America — Brazil 43 Argentina 13 Other States 35
Not all these are white people. The United States has some 14 million Negroes and other coloured folk. Argentina is mainly a white country, but Mexico and Brazil have a majority of coloured people. Nature gave plentiful coal to the United States, and that fact accounts for her great preponderance of population, amounting to .nearly half the entire population of the continent. Canada is still largely empty country. South and Central America together have 71 million square miles of area against the 8 million square miles of North America, and yet have an aggregate population of only 113 million people against North- America's 162 millions. South America still has vast uncropped areas, mainly in Brazil, Argentina. and Uruguay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1941, Page 4
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190AMERICA’S MILLIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1941, Page 4
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