Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Population of the Earth. [ARTICLE]

Population of the Earth.

In an appendix toPetermann’sMitteilungen, just issued, there are complete statistics of the population of the earth, in which a table of the great cities (with more than 100,000 inhabitants) is of great interest. . Of such cities England has 30, Germany 24, France and Russia each 12, Italy 10, Austria-Hungary 6, Spain 5, Belgium, the Scandinavian States, Rumania and tho Balkan Islands each 4, the Netherlands 3, Portugal 2; the total in Europe being 116 great cities. Asia has 105, China having 53 and British India 30. In Africa there are 7, in America 40, of which the United States have 26, South America 9. Australia has only two large cities. In the whole of these great cities of the world there is a population of about 80,000,000, being about 5.4 per cent, of the whole population of the earth. Among tbe great cities London has the first place, with 4,416,000 souls; Paris the second, with 2,713,000; New York-Brooklyn the third, with 2.352,000, and Berlin the fourth, with 1,703,543.