Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1882 — The World’s Population. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Population.

Another edition oi Drs. Behm and Wagner’s well-known statistical compilation of the population of the earth has just appeared at Gotha, brought down to 1882. The last edition was printed in 188 and the world’s population have the right to congratulate themselves that their number has increased by 83,000,000 in two years. The populations of the various continents, according to the latest data, are given as fo'lows: Europe, 327,748,4 0; Asia, 795,591,(00; Africa, 205,823,20J; America, 100,415,400 r Australia and Polynesia, 4,:.33,.000; polar regions, 82,"(X); total, 1,413,837,500. There are some interesting details connected with the statistics. Greece has gained 299,953 population in her new terr torv. Asiatic Russia has also gained by territorial accessions, and now numbers 14,936,750; adding this to the population of European Russia gives 93,313,000 to the whole empire. The most interesting feature, however, is the reduction of the population of China, by correcting former errors, from 434,500,000 to 371,200,000. The final figures are for China proper, 350,000,000, for Manchuria, Mongolia, Thibet, Jungarie and East Turkestan, 21,180,000. Coming to America, the principal populations are set down as follows: United States, 50,442,0:30; Canada, 4,324,810; Mexico, 9,577,279; Central America, 2,891,000; West Indies, 4,617,450; South America, 28,010,354, of which number nearly one-half belongs to Brazil. »