Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Population of Great Britain. [ARTICLE]

Population of Great Britain.

The population of Great Britain in 1894 according to the returns of the registrar general, was 38,776,154, England and Wales having 30,060,763, Scotland, 4,124,691, and Ireland, 4.590,700. The birth rate for the year, in England and Wales, was 29.6 per 1,000 , 2 per 1,000 less than the mean for the previous ten years, and declared to be the smallest on record. The death rate, 16.6 per 1,000, was also the lowest on record, being 1.5 per 1,000 less than the previous lowest rate, that for 1888, and 2.6 lower than the ten year average.