Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — If the Earth Were Divided. [ARTICLE]

If the Earth Were Divided.

The share of land falling to each inhabitant of the globe, in the event of a partition, might be set down at 23. acres. The land surface of the globe contains, as nearly as possible, •',000,000.000 acres, which, divided among the 1,5,0,000,000 inhabitants which the world contains, according to the lat st estimates, would give to ■ a h ' f them the above named quantit . Taking the entire population of the world, there are nearly twentyuitie inhabitants to every square mile. The following figures snow the number of persons omitting fractions: to a s uare mile in the various divisions of the globe: Europe, 88; Asia. 4(1; Africa, 18; North America, 9; South America, 4; Oceanic and Polar regions, 2.