Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — The People and Horses in the World. [ARTICLE]

The People and Horses in the World.

In the last number of Petermann’s Geographische Mittlieilungen the number of inhabitants of the globe is estimated at 1,439,145,300, of which 312,398,480 are set down to Europe, 831,000,000 to Asia, 205,219,500 to Africa, 4,411,300 to Australia, and 86,116,000 to America. The number of horses existing (China and Japan not included) is said to be 58,000,000. Russia is stated to possess 21,570,000, the United States 9,504,000, the Argentine Republic 4,000,000, Germany 3,352,000, France 3,000,000, Canada 2,624,000, Great Britain 2,255,000, Hungary 2,179,000, Austria 1,367,000, Turkey 1,100,000. —Pall Mall Gazette.