Depopulation of the Country

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 May 1903, Page 9

Depopulation of the Country

The emigration figures for 1902 show a considerable increase on those of the previous year The total number ol emigrants who left li eland during the past war was 40, 101 , or 9 1 per thousand of the country's population as estimated m the middle of the year. These emigrants comprised 18.893 males, or 550 more than the preMous year, and 21.508 females, a deciease of 19. Of these emigrants, 40,190 were natives of Ireland, and 211 not ; and, in comparison with the figures of the previous year the number of emigrants natives of Ireland shows an increase of 557, and the number of those natives of other countries a decrease of 40 Of the native emigrants, 8691, or 3 2 per thousand of the province in 1901, were from Leinster : 15,872, or 14 7 per thousand, from Munster ; 9.091, or 5 7 per thousand, from I'l'sipr , and 11,5153. or 17 8 per thousand, from Connaught — making a total equal to 9.0 per thousand of the native-bom population of Ireland , and these figures, compared with those of 1901, show an inciease of 294

emigrants from Lcinster, a decrease of 509 from Munster, an increase of 851 from Ulster, and an increase of 441 from Connaught.